NSW councils are getting increasingly nervous over whether regional airlines will have continued guaranteed access to Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport if a second airport is built with fears growing country communities could lose access to services available only in the city.
Incentives to pay up-front appear to have been put on-hold pending official clarification.
The potential for the federal government’s planned Melbourne-to-Brisbane Inland Railway to reduce costly damage to local roads has led to praise from councils across Australia.
The Queensland government is seeking to reduce emergency service response times by trialling new traffic light triggers that can detect the flashing lights and sirens of approaching vehicles and automatically switch signals to green to minimise traffic disruption.
The New South Wales government has gone shopping for higher resolution surveillance cameras for its mass transit network to improve safety on trains, light rail, buses and ferries.
A federal government commitment to flood-proof Queensland’s Bruce Highway is being predictably hailed by the Campbell Newman government.
The local member for Leichhardt is siding with his community while rejecting neighbouring interlopers.
Accusations that new traffic signals are an attempt to dominate a small community.
The small community of Mossman is fighting back hard against the big retailer’s attempt to redefine their town’s streetscape by dictating what kind of infrastructure gets built.
Australia’s peak rail body has insisted that the Victorian government reinvests the planned sale of the Port of Melbourne into other vital transport infrastructure across the state to boost economic activity.
