By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) has hit out at Brookfield Rail’s planned closure of two grain freight lines in the state’s Wheatbelt, claiming that the…
Category: Freight & supply chain
Rail Association gauges big spike in train usage
By Paul Hemsley New research commissioned by Australia’s peak rail body has found that the use of passenger, freight and light rail increased in dramatically between 2011 and 2012, after…
Glebe Island Bridge a demolition too far for Leichhardt Mayor
By Julian Bajkowski The Mayor of inner Sydney Leichhardt Council, Darcy Byrne has gone on the attack over a report commissioned by the state that has raised the option of…
Developers battle bid to lift minimum Sydney unit sizes
By Julian Bajkowski There’s a longstanding joke that you couldn’t swing a cat in many of Sydney’s smaller flats and apartments, but debate over just how compact units in new…
Drivers warned to ‘Train yourself’ or die
By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s rail industry has launched its annual community safety awareness blitz, Rail Safety Week with a blunt message about the often lethal consequences of being on the…
Albanese stokes fire on High Speed Rail
By Julian Bajkowski Federal Labor might be a train wreck, but that hasn’t stopped Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Local Government and Regional Development Anthony Albanese from trying to keep industry…
Infrastructure Australia head rails against bureaucratic ineptitude
By Julian Bajkowski The head of Infrastructure Australia, the Commonwealth’s chief advisor on national rail, roads and ports policy, has delivered a blistering critique of all three layers of bureaucracy,…
New burial for resurrected Fremantle Line
By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian government has laid the first tracks in the Fremantle Line tunnel that will reconnect the Perth’s central business district with the nearby suburb of…
Cowra mayor slams infrastructure strategy
By Julian Bajkowski New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell’s new state infrastructure strategy has come under heavy fire from a prominent regional leader after the Mayor of Cowra, Bill West,…
Queensland sells $1.5b of QR National
By Paul Hemsley Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls has announced the government will try to offload shares in its freight rail company QR National it says are worth around $1.5 billion….