How should our cities prepare for self-driving vehicles?

City managers aren’t doing much to get ready for self-driving vehicles yet the signs are they’ll be ready to use on public roads very soon – as autonomous buses and trams

How should our cities prepare for self-driving vehicles?

Would building this new rail station be a sensible idea?

There’s pressure to expand the proposed Melbourne Metro project to incorporate a new station at South Yarra; but the Government insists it can’t be justified

Would building this new rail station be a sensible idea?

How important is public transport?

New data provides valuable and possibly surprising insights into how Australian city dwellers use public transport and its potential to change the nature of urban travel

How important is public transport?

Will capping the number of bottle shops contain family violence?

A Melbourne Council opposes a new Dan Murphy’s packaged liquor outlet because its concerned it would increase the number of family violence incidents within the municipality

Will capping the number of bottle shops contain family violence?

Is there anyone left at Fairfax to do editing?

Fairfax ran an article on High Speed Rail yesterday that shouldn’t have survived even a basic credibility test. It’s as if all those who used to do the sub-editing have been ‘let go’

Is there anyone left at Fairfax to do editing?

Why do we say public transport is so important is so few of use it?

Improving the experience of occasional users of public transport – those who might use it only to go to the footy – is a key way of building community support for improvements

Why do we say public transport is so important if so few of us use it?

Is High Speed Rail our National Boondoggle?

If there were any doubt, the Prime Minister’s embrace of east coast High Speed Rail and his spinning of value capture shows he’s just as cynical and opportunistic as Labor and the Greens

Is High Speed Rail our National Boondoggle?

How important is cycling in Australian cities?

New data shows cycling is already a much more important transport mode than policy-makers recognise. More trips are made by bicycle on a weekday in Melbourne than are made by either tram or bus

How important is cycling in Australian cities?

Why are Australians downsizing their dogs?

The shift towards higher density living seems an obvious reason why Australians are apparently downsizing their dogs; but there are other possible explanations, like fashion

Why are Australians downsizing their dogs?

Surely the 30-minute city makes sense for primary school trips?

Surely the 30-minute city makes sense for primary school trips?

Does this historic building require more “breathing space”?

Critics say a proposed new residential tower to be built next door to Brisbane’s historic former Customs House will endanger the heritage values of the old building

Does this historic building require more “breathing space”?

How safe is cycling on roads in Australian cities?

Cycling on roads in large cities like Melbourne is much more likely to get you killed than driving, but the risk is still extremely low and the individual and social benefits are high

How safe is cycling on roads in Australian cities?

Has Turnbull’s cities rhetoric radicalised the Liberal Premiers?

Comments by Australia’s conservative Premiers indicate the PM isn’t alone in his embrace of new urbanist philosophy. It seems traditional political understandings might need to be revised

Has Turnbull’s cities rhetoric radicalised the Liberal Premiers?