Category: Rail

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,…

By Paul Hemsley Western Australian Transport Minister Troy Buswell has ratcheted up investment in Perth’s increasingly popular railway network to absorb the growth in passenger patronage on state capital’s trains…

By Paul Hemsley Baw Baw Shire Council has revealed plans to test new street lighting based on light-emitting diode (LED) technology as an alternative to existing mercury vapour street lamps…

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….

By Paul Hemsley The Queensland Coordinator-General has cleared the way for an environmental assessment of the Central Queensland Integrated Rail project that aims to break a major minerals export bottleneck….

By Paul Hemsley The Queensland government is following Victoria’s footsteps to make open level crossings  for trains and cars safer. Last month, the Victorian government announced it would trial communications…

By Julian Bajkowski Council enforcement and compliance powers covering parking, planning, health and safety in New South Wales could soon be rewritten after the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART)…

By Julian Bajkowski The Federal government has pressed ahead with a controversial move to allow commercial advertising on government websites after the Bureau of Meteorology called for expressions of interest…

By Julian Bajkowski One of Australia’s leading computer security researchers has hit out against the popular notion that iPads and iPhones are more secure than their competitors, comparing the unswerving…

By Paul Hemsley Perth has become the latest Australian city to jump aboard the light rail bandwagon in an ambitious bid to iron out bottlenecks and speed up travel times…