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Jade Beagle offers commentary on Australian transport issues drawing on thoughts from John Austen.

The articles below are listed in chronological order.  

The articles are located in 6 groups which can be found by clicking on ARTICLES (next to HOME) in the sub-heading at the top of this page.

The groups are: Roads; Rail; Plans and assessments; Federal-State relations; Bits and pieces; More interesting stuff.  These groups list articles in alphabetical order.
 
The location of an article in a group is identified in italics at the end of its description below. 


Roads 1, 2 and 3: introduce some issues in roads policies.[Roads]

Audit: provides some background to the submission to Infrastructure Australia. [Plans & assessments]

Sydney fares submission: raises some aspects to be considered in the review of Opal card fares. [Bits & pieces].

Sydney: deals with some issues regarding transport and arguments for Constitutional change.[Federal-State relations]

Governance:  provides background for forthcoming articles on substantive transport issues.[Federal-State relations]

Federal urban transport prelude: identifies some broad policy direction.[Federal-State relations]

Commonwealth urban transport?: more detail on federal urban transport [Federal-State relations]

Transport policy post Williams: summarises Commonwealth urban transport. [Federal-State relations]

​Zombie road apocalypse: rounds out roads in 2015. [Roads]

Sydney 2 post monorail exhibit 1: makes some suggestions to improve and extend bicycle policy [Bits & pieces]

High speed rail a note: identifies some quirks with the recent official high speed rail studies. [Rail] 

A better mousetrap?  reviews the Grattan Institute's work on transport investment. [Plans & assessments]

Big things in transport: offers some advice for the 2016 election campaign. [Federal-State relations]

Sydney 2 exhibit 2 Toucheth not the monorail: looks at some practical issues about Commonwealth involvement in urban transport projects. [Federal-State relations]

High speed rail where to: gives some suggestions about restarting high speed rail proposals in Australia. [Rail] 

If only governments spent what they collected from roads: looks, yet again, at this argument. [Roads] 

Mousetrap  2:  updates and expands on a better mousetrap. [Plans & assessments]
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Road pricing: is a simple guide to the discussion. [Roads]

Higher speed rail, why Newcastle?: considers some comparative aspects of a proposal for high speed rail Sydney to Wollongong. [Rail] [Plans & assessments]

High speed rail again!: raises some questions regarding the CLARA proposal. [Rail] 

Road reform: accompanies the road pricing article and looks at road funding challenges. [Roads]

Australian infrastructure plan: suggests improvements to the plan. [Plans & assessments]

​Time for Federal action? Newcastle port: considers the restrictions on Newcastle port included in the recent privatisations. [Federal-State relations]

Update on a sell-out: update on Newcastle port privatisation. [Federal-State relations]

​Urban railways and developers: offers some caution about developer led railways in big cities. [Rail] 

Yawn: looks again at claims about 'road reform'. [Roads]

Western Sydney rail submission: is a submission to the Commonwealth/NSW scoping study October 2016. [Rail] 

Its time: is about the Commonwealth/NSW western Sydney rail scoping study. [Rail] 

Toucheth not the monorail: western Sydney rail provides background to the submission. [Rail] 

Toucheth not the monorail: (Sydney) metro summary business case considers the summary and west metro announcement. [Rail] .

Roads - another deficit year considers the latest official road spending and revenue data. [Roads]

A bad day on the East Hills line tries to give some perspective about public commentary. [Rail] 

Badgerys Creek considers some western Sydney transport issues. [Rail] 

Some thoughts on NSW ports offers some comments on recent bloggings. [Bits & pieces]
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Data: is a submission to the National Transport Commission on 'who moves what where'. [Bits & pieces]

Beagles paws 1 provides some observations about the energy situation. [Bits & pieces]

Austral obscura 1 suggests abolition of the Transport and Infrastructure Ministerial Council as the first step in a national rail policy; [Rail]  [Federal-State relations]

​Austral obscura 2 provides more details for 1. [Rail] [Federal-State relations]

Macro-micro, Westconnex and westies considers the paradox of macro-economic experts calling for more infrastructure while projects underway are criticised. [Roads] [Plans & assessments]
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Freight 1 offers some principles for freight policy. [Bits & pieces]

Debt: the good, the bad and the .....  points out a flaw in the 2017 debate about 'good' and 'bad' Commonwealth debt. [Bits & pieces]

Quo vadis..... notes a disparity between flashes of modern thinking by the Prime Minister and the usual infrastructure monologue. [Federal-State relations]

Doubling up... considers the May 2017 discussion about Badgerys Creek rail and the role of the Commonwealth. [Rail] [Federal-State relations] 

Meddling..... suggests how the Commonwealth might 'meddle' in big city rail, [Rail] [Federal-State relations] 

Hume highway.... what needs to be done to stop its misuse. [Roads] [Federal-State relations]

Heavy vehicle price regulator submission - submission to Commonwealth departments. [Roads]

Weird scenes outside the gold mine - reviews Infrastructure Australia's report on public transport franchising. [Rail] [Plans & assessments]

A job for Hollywood Harold - advice on the next stage of 'road reform'. [Roads]

Freight and logistics - submission to the 2017 Commonwealth departmental inquiry. [Bits & pieces]

Earth to Canberra - we have problems looks at corridor protection [Plans & assessments]

Sideshow alley - more on corridor protection [Plans & assessments]

Earth to Canberra 2 - looks the Infrastructure Australia's published evaluation of Sydney Metro. [Rail] [Plans & assessments]

Sydney salutes the toilet gang - the 30 minute city and echoes of localism. ​[Plans & assessments] [Bits & pieces] 

Wonderland!  Glory and Evaluation - asks for an update to the evaluation of Westconnex. [Roads] [Plans & assessments]

The dog that didn't bark - a curious aspect of the Maldon-Dombarton rail proposal. [Rail] [Plans & assessments]

All things must pass - the Australasian Railways Association national plan. [Rail]  [Federal-State relations]

Infrastructure priorities - a response to the invitation for the public to identify infrastructure priorities [Plans & assessments]

Grasshopper - update on road pricing October 2017. [
Roads] [Federal-State relations]

Trouble in paradise 1 - some matters regarding big projects and the 3 cities plan for Sydney [Plans & assessments, Federal State relations]  

Trouble in paradise 2 - the Greater Sydney Regional plan and NSW future transport plan November 2017 [Plans & assessments, Federal State relations, Rail]  

Rock and road reform - an eminent one to lead road reform [Roads]

Future Transport - submission to NSW Future Transport and Greater Sydney Regional Plan drafts [Plans & assessments, Rail]

Paradise revisited - December 2017 Sydney infrastructure highlights [Plans & assessments, Rail, Federal State relations]

Sydney impedimenta Deo contraria - (God opposing Sydney trains) [Rail]

A tiresome chore - January 2018, road statistics and policy [Road, Federal State relations]

Boogie men - a suggestion for Sydney City Council [Bits & pieces]

Purgatory - a collection on Sydney rail [Rail]

Freight NSW - submission to NSW draft freight plan [Bits & pieces]

Rail gun - the Hamilton dawdler - Claims about Metro v. rail to 'Newcastle' (actually Hamilton) [Rail]

Untitled - comments on the immigration-infrastructure 'debate' [Bits & pieces]

Bicycle thieves = renewed interest in helmut laws [Bits & pieces]

No deal! - the Western Sydney 'City Deal' [Rail, Federal-State relations]

Dogs breakfast - letter to the Daily Telegraph on 'We're for Sydney' [Rail]

Dogs breakfast for two - letter to the Daily Telegraph on another correction for 'We're for Sydney' [Rail]

Dogs breakfast for three - letters on Western Sydney deal - to Prime Minister etc [Rail]

Is nothing sacred? - gala dinner for Sydney 'Go West' campaign held in eastern half of Sydney [Rail]

WOOHOO! - the NSW community dividend fund [Bits & pieces]

Pantheon of Ignominy - an initiative and an invite [Bits & pieces]

Magic - how the NSW Government destroyed its own case for Sydney Metro [Rail, Almost new]

Zero - a follow up to magic and a rating of policy effort to date [Rail, Almost new]

Freight chainsaw - some comments on Australian freight policy [Almost new]

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  • Glory without power
  • Infrastructure Paradise - little turtle
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  • Little turtle 2 - picnic
  • the hair-brained and the otiose
  • G
  • Broken record
  • urbans admonition
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  • mice
  • Doublet of Ramses
  • fit
  • How high is the dome?
  • miracle on olympic boulevarde
  • submission to aps review 2019
  • on conversations in strip joints
  • election 2019
  • referendums
  • Believe it or not
  • submission to nsw legislative council - bankstown line metro conversion - sep 23 2019
  • above the law? infrastructure claims
  • Comments to Metro inquiry
  • more comments on sydenham bankstown inquiry
  • tinpot
  • updated comments on sydenham bankstown metro conversion
  • its all about climate change
  • media botch
  • Sydney Metro blowout
  • infrastructure priorities 2020
  • Roads 2019
  • western sydney city deal
  • covid - may
  • New Page
  • Acme
  • Covid - July 2020
  • Ita - letter to
  • 40 billion
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  • sydney update nov 2020
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  • Tinpot emergency!
  • acrpa
  • emergency achieved
  • New Page
  • 'pandemic progress' - a comment
  • pandemic progress a note
  • emergencies - tinpot series
  • covid infrastructure posts
  • shooting a corpse
  • happy new fear
  • transport plans
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  • policy SPAD
  • Newcastle port case
  • facts and minds
  • infrastructure plan 2021
  • het
  • Policy SPAD update
  • not so fast
  • policy spad update 2 jan 2022
  • policy spad update 2 background
  • high speed rail again 2022
  • ps3 news
  • newcastle fast rail
  • roads deficit 2019-20
  • strike
  • fossil fuel subsidies?
  • New Page
  • Tip fire a
  • sydenham-bankstown
  • commonwealth integrity commission 1
  • nifrastructure australia review 2022
  • MMA
  • attempted submission to committee on corruption commission
  • Tipfire D - infrastructure
  • TipFire c2 mma 2