Here is a great article in theantlanticcities http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2011/12/case-congestion/717/ Is there an equivalent to pouring olive oil on your bread, in urban transport terms? It always struck me in ‘good’ European cities how they were still filled with traffic, and still had good pedestrian amenity. What also struck... »

What prompted this post was reading more about the proposals for the North Western Rail Link and the Parramatta Epping rail line. Discussion on the Skycrapercity forums has also focussed on the development of the suburb of Epping in Sydney’s north. Concentrating more development, including... »

In 2010, historian Craig Stockings edited together an interesting volume entitled Zombie Myths of Australian Military History. In it, a group of (mostly) historians try to put to rest the ‘zombie myths’ of Australian military history – myths that refuse to die.  »

(My experience is Melbourne-based but hopefully we can draw some universal principles out of this.) A look at the rhetoric in the air on the subject of bus operations shows two distinct schools of thought – almost diametrically opposite in terms of content. Where is... »

How effective can ‘the wisdom of crowds’ be in highlighting ‘hot spots’ of operational problems in our public transport systems? I’ve been skimming through James Surowiecki’s 2004 book of the same name and while I don’t agree with everything he says, I am interested... »

Hi all, first post so please be gentle. Basically the point of my post is to share some observations of transport systems from my recent trip to the United States. »

Should Sydney – Canberra be the demonstration project for true, inter-city MSR in Australia? »

In the last couple of weeks I have become fascinated with this topic. Probably because of the obscene size of the numbers involved. As I once argued on my former blog, Trillion (million millions) is the new Billion. With Greece and the USA, in their... »