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Northern Link gets the go-ahead Brisbane City Council’s $1.7 billion Northern Link tunnel has received state government approval, paving the way for work to begin later this year….The Federal Government has chipped in $500 million to the $1.7 billion project, which is projected to provide 1400 jobs during construction and 85 jobs when it is running [...] (1) Infrastructure Australia Act 2008 Infrastructure Australia was set up under an Act in 2008 http://www.frli.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/Act1.nsf/0/8D482E840B59D9DACA257427000C1FBB/$file/0172008.pdf In clause 5.2.a Infrastructure Australia’s function is “to conduct audits to determine the adequacy, capacity and condition of nationally significant infrastructure, taking into account forecast growth;” This implies perpetual growth without the requirement of a resource analysis (e.g. fuel and energy requirements for the [...] No lessons learned from the financial collapse of the Lane Cove Tunnel? Summary: Only days after the financial collapse of the Lane Cove Tunnel the NSW government continues to plan road tunnels. An F3-M2 tunnel under the Pennant Hills Rd, for example, was assessed by SKM in 2004 (based on 2003 construction costs and assuming a [...] Start clearing for buildings: developers’ call to Canberra “THE Federal Government should immediately begin planning to sell the 1700 hectares of land it bought for a second Sydney airport in the city’s west, developer groups say.” http://www.smh.com.au/national/start-clearing-for-buildings-developers-call-to-canberra-20091215-kuo1.html No, don’t do it. Sydney needs this area for food production. We still have rain in the Sydney basin and it’s [...] A sustainable city is foremost an energy thrifty city with a minimum of energy used for transport. A good example is the 1976 master plan for Dodoma in Tanzania, an energy poor country, where planners were forced by circumstances to design a city with this objective in mind. This is not your average subdivision. It [...] |
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