Minimal funds to fix Sydney congestion. Rees’ has been humiliated by his Canberra colleagues and the people of Sydney are the big losers. Rees hasn’t delivered, he can’t deliver. Every day he is in office is another day wasted in getting a solution for Sydney’s worsening transport problems.

A stunning admission: THE CBD Metro will run as much as 87 per cent empty during the height of the morning rush hour when it opens in 2015, the Transport Minister, David Campbell, has conceded. Campbell must be one of the dopiest Ministers in a very, very ordinary front bench.

The SMH carries a story today that the disappointing Nathan Rees, having dropped the ball on rail transport, is now going to add an extra burden on peak hour car commuters: THE Premier has declared he wants cashless tolls on all of Sydney’s major roads so motorists pay varying fees at different times of the [...]

Another hard-hitting piece: TEN years after unveiling its bold transport plan for Sydney, the State Government has failed to build a single one of the five major rail projects it promised. In a damning indictment, The Daily Telegraph has found that of the five projects outlined by then-premier Bob Carr – fast trains to Newcastle [...]

Anyone with the slightest understanding of politics would have known that replacing a much-touted metro-link to Sydney’s grossly under-serviced north-west with a cheaper but utterly unnecessary rail link to two inner-west suburbs would be a complete PR disaster. Nathan Rees, however, is clueless. Don’t forget the bizarre ‘love and traffic’ and ‘black panther’ episodes. The [...]