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Transport
foot, cycle, train, bus, ferry, car, truck, airplane and the community
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Time's up for petrol cars, says GM chief
Joshua Dowling, The Sydney Morning Herald, 15/01/08
Holden parent company General Motors has declared at the 2008 Detroit motor show that electric cars are the way of the future because of dwindling oil supplies, writes JOSHUA DOWLING.
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NRMA attack on bikes bad move for all road users
Media Release - 10 January 2008
Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon today rejected the NRMA's criticism of public money being spent on cycling lanes and has again called for five per cent of the RTA's budget to be allocated on a safe, integrated cycle network.
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Lane Cove Tunnel failure shows its time to scrap city motorways
Media release - 30 November 2007
Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has called on the NSW government to scrap its plans to build the M4 East and other city motorways following today's report on the under performing Lane Cove Tunnel (today's Sydney Morning Herald, page 1).
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Cities within city on track for change
Bob Meyer
SMH, November 2, 2007
Sydney would respond to a shift towards a greater use of public transport better than most world cities of a similar size. This is because it is a city of cities, with a multicentred configuration.
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The goods yard trainlines at Lilyfield. Photo: Brendan Esposito
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Light rail opportunity left idling on the track
Catharine Munro
Sydney Morning Herald
October 15, 2007
A FREIGHT line in Sydney's inner west is soon to lie idle, but the NSW Government will not commit to allowing light rail to use it.
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CEO of Bicycle NSW, Alex Unwin
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Safety argument against cycling doesn't travel
Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter
Sydney Morning Herald
October 8, 2007
LAZYBONES who shun cycling for safety reasons may soon have to find a new excuse.
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Passenger trains on track to go green
SAKU, Japan: Winding through rice paddies and lazily blowing its whistle along bubbly creeks, a two-car train in rural northern Japan is the latest entrant in the battle against global warming.
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Scrap Port Botany expansion to solve truck chaos
Greens MP John Kaye - Media Release - 15 August 2007
Greens NSW MP John Kaye says halting the expansion of Port Botany is the key to relieving pressure from trucks on Sydney’s roads. New truck tunnels will rapidly become billion dollar white elephants as oil prices rise.
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Scores of Bicyclists Go Nude in U.K.
BRIGHTON, England (AP) -- With strategically placed helmets and slogans painted on bare skin, scores of people shed their clothes and rode through this seaside resort on their bicycles Saturday to promote cycling as an environmentally friendly mode of transport.
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Randwick Racecourse
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Race course expansion to add to traffic chaos
Ben Spies-Butcher, Greens candidate for Heffron, today expressed his concerns about proposed road changes around the AJC Race Course.
"The Race Course plans may significantly add to traffic in the area, particularly around Kensington Public School. This is of concern to parents and teachers trying to access the school, and of course increased traffic increases the risk to children crossing the road" Mr Spies-Butcher said.
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M5 East Tunnel - more of the same?
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Greens' plan to protect local communities and local streets
Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon today announced that the Greens will move a Private Members Bill to stop the Gardeners Road Motor Ramps, the F6 and the Marrickville Tunnel.
"We have been talking to people in south-east Sydney and there is great concern about the impact of the Gardeners Road ramps, F6 and other road projects on local residents" Ms Rhiannon said.
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Greens to Buy Back Stations
Ben Spies-Butcher, Greens candidate for Heffron, has announced an innovative scheme to buy back Green Square and Mascot train stations, and promote public transport.
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Councillor Chris Harris
The prospect of twenty seven months of construction noise and dozens of trucks per day on your street would make the most stoic of residents unhappy. And when your street is one of the quietest and most beautiful tree lined avenues in inner Sydney (pictured), unhappy doesnât even begin to describe it. Such was the [...]
At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party âindependentsâ and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]
I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the Cityâs tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]
Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction. The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]
The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the cityâs western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd.
One key component of the [...]
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