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Gutting the Greater Cities Commission

6 July 2023 -
The A$26.6 billon Sydney West Metro, for example, connects Sydney’s two central business districts, but bypasses the residential hot spots just west of the Parramatta CBD.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/06/gutting-the-greater-cities-commission.html
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www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2022/11/07.html
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Debunking the myths around optically-guided bus (trackless trams)

7 July 2021 -
Rubber-tyred metro systems, for instance, offer better traction and acceleration (especially at grade) on many urban rail systems. ... The cost of deployment is said to be USD 7-15 million per kilometre, as compared with USD 20-30 million for light rail
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2019/01/21/debunking-the-myths-around-optically-guided-bus--trackless-trams.html
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Corridor protection for infrastructure and transport

31 October 2018 -
This required a strata title through various building basements. Given that Metro Sydney has now adopted an entirely different alignment through the CBD, this seemingly sensible – at the time - planning precaution ... Those of us around at the time
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2017/10/26/corridor-protection-for-infrastructure-and-transport.html
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Sydney supports extension of educational equity program in schools

5 April 2023 -
and metro schools.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/04/05/sydney-supports-extension-of-educational-equity-program-in-schools.html
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Pitfalls for private financing of public projects

22 February 2024 -
By contrast, recent published project summaries in Australia, for example, Melbourne Metro PPP, indeed quantify the future financial obligations. ... Melbourne Metro Rail Authority/Victoria State Government, Metro Tunnel Project Summary, February 2018.
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2018/05/15/pitfalls-for-private-financing.html
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Mobility as a service

28 March 2022 -
Edmonton (Canada), BusNSW, Busvic, Bus Industry Confederation, Busways Group, Buslink Queensland and Metro Trains Australia.
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2018/08/05/mobility-as-a-service.html
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Prof Tony Weiss elected to the US National Academy of Inventors

8 December 2021 -
Professor Tony Weiss has become the first academic from the University of Sydney elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, a rare honour for international researchers.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/12/08/tony-weiss-elected-us-national-academy-inventors-nai-fellow.html
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The growing importance of equity in planning cities: recognising the value of improved mobility for those at exclusion risk

5 September 2022 -
11). In similar vein, drafts of Vancouver's updated Regional Growth Strategy (Metro Vancouver 2021) and Regional Transportation Strategy (Translink 2021) talk about equitably sharing the benefits of the city, the ... Metro Vancouver 2021, Draft Metro 2050
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2022/09/05/the-growing-importance-of-equity-in-planning-cities--recognising.html
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Thinking public transport, electric cars and the roads we drive on

1 June 2022 -
An example he uses of a flawed rail solution is the Sydney Metro Northwest. ... Construction began in 2011 with the first driverless metro train completing the full journey in January 2019 between the newly gazetted suburb of Tallawong, in north west
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/04/05/thinking-public-transport--electric-cars-and-the-roads-we-drive-.html