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Some inconvenient thoughts
The start of a new year turns our thoughts toward the year ahead, while the end of the first decade of the 21st Century in one year's time gives us further pause for reflection and thought. There's been some points about the rail industry ripe for debate that have been rolling around in my... »
A Summer reading list
It's a tradition in the British Parliament that during the Summer recess, the deeper thinkers in some of the political parties compile a Summer reading list for MPs to read. With the end of the academic year, the last exam taken care of and as the work year starts to run down, the long,... »
Publicising our research – answering a call for papers
The 2010 Australasian Transport Research Forum has put out a call for papers that closes at the end of January 2010. If you've got a piece of research that you've done on a transport topic, why not share it with the rest of the transport world? »
What if?… Counter-factual transport histories
As a historian by training, I was inspired by this thread at the Other Place to think about some counter-factual transport history scenarios in Australia. »
Station capacity and safety: discussion post on Town Hall
There has been much fretting at in the NSW Government over the future of Town Hall station, so much so that it has been a key factor in the plan for the Rozelle Metro, and in previous proposals such as the Metro-West line from Central to Wynyard not via Town Hall. The situation arises from Town... »
Achieving modal shift – some problems to be faced
No, I'm not talking about easy things like fixing bus-train connections, or even the capacity of the rail »