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Oh lordy, you haven't been following the latest news on Australia's supposed 'energy crisis' have you? Flogging off the 'poles and wires' was done about 15-20 years ago here in Victoria and governments of both persuasions are starting to regret it. Generation, distribution and retailing is...

It's slightly more complex. Sydney's trains: current metropolitan network, the inter-urban and inter-city network will remain double-deck for a long-while yet, the New South Wales government just ordered a complete replacement (double deck for double deck) of their inter-urban and inter-city...

I've been following a fair bit of the transit discussion here on UT, in particular the SmartTrack thread and rather than pollute that thread even more with AU stuff ( :) ) I thought I'd post this separately. The Regional Rail Link (RRL) - born out of the panic in the GFC and a benefactor of the...

The most recent tunnels that were built for Sydney's Doucble-deckers (DDs) have an internal diameter of 6.5m ("Epping-Chatswood railway"), the tunnels they're now building for the recently rebranded Sydney Metro, previously known as the North West Rail Link which will run Single deck (SD)...

It's been interesting to read the single versus double deck arguments on here, just providing some technical info to back up what ssiguy2 is saying: As rule of thumb, the station spacing in Melbourne's inner 10km ring is around 1km, denser on some lines (600-800m between the city and Clifton...

Yikes. That map is incredibly old. Plus there are no DMU trains operating metropolitan services in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth. Adelaide is in the process of electrifying its network (2 lines already completed). DMU services on metropolitan networks are only there as they're...

To quote/paraphrase the great man, Hadid's proposal is bird shit architecture - like all starchitects - at its best: The Flinders St design comp was an incoming Liberal Government's brainfart - no commitment to funding, but they wanted a competition. Hadid's saving grace was the eastern...

Technically, from a crewing perspective they do, but operationally yes, a train might originate in Pakenham, run all through the way to the city, do the loop, then come out on the same group (Pakenham = Caulfield group) then might run back to Pakenham, Cranbourne or Frankston (refer to map)...

Depends if you compare the now or the future. We just had a big ol' info dump last week when Public Transport Victoria did the public release of its heavy-rail plan/stragegy that it's effectively had in use for 4-5 years last week. Melbourne's network - if the following plan is more or less...

Before and after shot of the CBD with this + all the other biggies either U/C or likely to start soon. Before UM forum thread: http://urbanmelbourne.info/forum/southbank-australia-108-70-southbank-blvd-388m-108l-mixed-use After A new power is rising? lol ;) (curtain from SSC)

And this has now just been approved by the state planning minister with potentially to start this year.

well, potentially anyhow. Have a guess which market the developer appears to be pitching to. Project name: Australia 108 Building height: 388m Number of levels: 108 # of apartments: 600 # of hotel rooms (top): 288. PRobably most interest tidbit on the project...

The PTUA mean well, but really the stop spacing in Melbourne hasn't changed since the days of cable trams and many stops are completely irrelevant (you could quite literally remove half the stops on the network and you'd on average only have an extra 200m to get to a tram stop). They also...

Also, it seems Crown seems to come up a lot: Victorian only legalised gambling in the early-mid 90s - you used to only be able to legally play two-up on ANZAC day (April 25th) or had to go to interstate if you wanted to gamble. Large Casinos - in your (RC8) earlier post - pale in significance...

One block west of Crown is South Wharf which has the Exhibition and Convention centres - I wouldn't call it horrible, dead yes, owing to the nature of the buildings - like stadiums they shouldn't built anywhere near dense hubs as they're generally single use and only used at specific times...

Federal level: House of representatives is preferential ("instant run off") Senate is preferential proportional representation. they key is, whatever you choose, the two houses should have different systems so diversity ensues (it makes it more likely the government thats formed in the...