Category: Rail

Any immediate prospect of using fast trains to bypass freeway congestion to connect to people to international and domestic flights has been shunted aside for another big ticket roads build.

NSW leader’s career drowned by inconsistent evidence over delivery of 1959 bottle of Penfolds Grange.

Melbourne has long suffered from the lack of a heavy rail link to speed passengers and staff to Tullamarine airport. Now the Napthine government has unveiled ambitious plans to fix the infrastructure deficit in the run-up to the November election.

Getting across social media has never been easy for government organisations of any kind.

Australia’s peak railway body is pushing the federal government to tap into money held by superannuation funds to kickstart infrastructure projects it says are vital to the nation.

Urban planning over the next two decades in Western Australia will focus heavily on creating an environment friendly to cyclists in the Colin Barnett government’s ambitious new Bicycle Network Plan.

The anticipated growth of freight rail use over the next decade has led the Queensland government to look for a new operator to manage heavier and more frequent loads.

A new mobile app is being developed by the University of Sydney that will allow commuters to warn each other about crowded trains and buses, rowdy students or broken air conditioning – and transport operators will be linked in.

The Victorian government will offer free travel on Melbourne CBD trams as a hard fought extension to light rail in Sydney finally opens.

The Communications Minister has put agencies on notice that charging for access to taxpayer-funded information now lacks support at an official level and that Open Data is the way preferred way forward.