What’s the problem airport rail would solve?

There needs to be a clear and focused justification for spending billions of dollars on building a rail line from the CBD to Melbourne Airport

What’s the problem airport rail would solve?

That was The week That was…

Tw3 provides a brief commentary on stories bearing on the delights and discontents of urbanism that were in the news over the week ending 29 October 2017

That was The week That was…

In this week’s Tw3 The Urbanist comments on:

• Lonely Planet lists Canberra as one of the world’s three hottest destinations
• Cars continue to rule Melbourne roads, Census shows
• Labor spends $10 million on spinners to win over public on transport projects
• What happens to the information you give to bike share companies?
• Are Trains Better Than Bus Rapid Transit Systems? A Look at the Evidence
• Ride sharing, better public transport have more to offer than solo car commutes
• Barak, Kirner and Chloe firm in station naming race, no joy for Dusty or Winterfell
• Becoming more urban: attitudes to medium-density living are changing in Sydney and Melbourne
• Growing unpopularity of Australia’s growing population
• Shifting the Dial: 5 year productivity review
• Sirius denied heritage protection, again

Weekend reading 28/29 October

Weekend reading 28/29 October

Who’s noticed the suburbs have turned green?

One of the the great unheralded changes in Australia’s cities was the greening of the suburbs – both old and new – over the last thirty to fifty years

Who’s noticed the suburbs have turned green?

Will Fishermans Bend meet this sustainability target?

It’s easy to give the appearance of being progressive when the proof of the pudding won’t be known until 2050, but sometimes inconvenient truths can’t be overlooked

Will Fishermans Bend meet this sustainability target?

That was The week That was…

Tw3 provides a brief commentary on stories in the news over the week ending 22 October 2017 that bear on the delights and discontents of urbanism

That was The week That was…

Weekend reading

Weekend reading

Does driving matter for a city’s liveability?

Driving will inevitably continue to have a huge impact on the liveability of Australia’s growing cities – policy-makers must stop ignoring the car and start “taming” it

Does driving matter for a city’s liveability?

Do the suburbs make you fat?

Suburbanites are fatter than inner city residents, but it might not be because the suburbs are more car-oriented; it might be because the two regions attract different types of people

Do the suburbs make you fat?

That was The week That was…

Tw3 provides a brief commentary on stories in the news over the week ending 15 October 2017 bearing on the delights and discontents of urbanism. In this week’s Tw3 The Urbanist comments on:

• ‘It was always going to happen’: Sydney’s disappearing freestanding homes
• Old and in the way: Built in 1882, wreckers to level ‘beautiful’ building in days
• $11b Metro Rail project fails to fix ‘utterly inadequate’ station in its path
• The 100 Most Influential Urbanists
• Paris to ban all petrol and diesel cars by 2030
• Few cities are as photogenic as Barcelona from above
• What liveability? Melbourne not as good as it’s made out to be
• Three things to ask yourself before doing community engagement
• Self-driving cars, talking bins and mag-lev train: vision for Sydney in 20 years
• The Housing and Transportation (H+T®) Affordability Index
• The Toll to Drive Into Manhattan Should Be $100

That was The week That was…

Is Sydney really full?

It’ll make mistakes like it always has, but Sydney’s problem with growth isn’t about physical capacity. The issue is most existing home owners don’t want things to change

Is Sydney really full?

Congestion charging: are these criticisms fatal?

There are a number of key criticisms of congestion charging; they carry weight and must be addressed in implementation, but no, they’re not killers

Congestion charging: are these criticisms fatal?

That was The week That was…

Tw3 provides a brief commentary on stories in the news over the week ending 8 October 2017 bearing on the delights and discontents of urbanism

That was The week That was…

The Urbanist Digest, September Qtr, 2017

A digest of all the topics discussed by The Urbanist in the September quarter 2017, including airports, public transport, cars and traffic, heritage, cycling, planning, memorials

The Urbanist Digest, Vol 3, 2017

Is congestion charging too inequitable?

Congestion charging shouldn’t be peremptorily written off as inequitable without examining closely how it would work and who the likely winners and losers would be

Is congestion charging too inequitable?

Is this the end for Bus Rapid Transit in Doncaster?

The Victorian Government won’t say why it’s turned down a proposal from a private company to build a $500 million Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system from Doncaster to the city centre

Is this the end for BRT in Doncaster?

That was The week That was…

Tw3 provides a brief commentary on stories in the news over the week ending 1 October 2017 bearing on the delights and discontents of urbanism

That was The week That was…