Victoria: How much are you willing to spend to cancel the Suburban Rail Loop?
https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-much-are-you-willing-to-spend-to-cancel-the-suburban-rail-loop/7c580327-cf22-4c98-aa7d-4d14fffc85f9

This is some shockingly bullshit-hypothetical neocon wish-fulfillment propaganda by the Murdoch media. And it's a colossal self-own for the Victorian LNP.

Why? Because Victorian people love our public transport projects such as Level-Crossing Removal. We want to continue modernising and expanding our train network.

Not to state the obvious but if the #US really wanted to ‘boost manufacturing’ a mass investment in #Amtrack would be a great way to do that.

Trains need to be built, after 30/40 years or so they need replaced, not to mention intermittent overhaul, which all takes skilled workers, and requires steel and other heavy industries. The US could easily sustain a substantial rail engineering sector indefinitely, if it so wanted.

You'd also help save the planet as a bonus.

Dutton says Coalition would scrap funding for 'hoax' Suburban Rail Loop in election promise
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/peter-dutton-coalition-melbourne-airport-rail-link-election-2025/105119666

Just like that, Peter Dutton has lost the election in Victoria.

Believe him when he says he wants to axe the Suburban Rail Loop. But, everyone knows his "nice" election promises are lies — he has no intention of building the Melbourne Airport Rail Link.

Melbourne Airport agrees to clear the hurdle to long-awaited rail link
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-08/vic-melbourne-airport-rail-line-station-compromise/104069626

Melbourne Airport management has finally backed-down from their insistence that the railway station and approaching rail line be a slow and expensive underground build, and have agreed to have it built above-ground.
The government's response should be "Well, duh, we're *giving* you a world-class transport link that will help improve your business and increase your customer happiness."
The delay has made no sense at all, and I get the impression some people running Melbourne Airport tried to politicise the issue in the lead-up to the last state election.
Victorians want the government and airport to stop squabbling get on with the job.

Corporations obsessed with making self-driving cars are getting closer to learning that the answer is to build more trains.

Why do we keep building roads?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-03/why-keep-spending-billions-on-motorways-m1-commute/102293384

Experience has shown us that building more lanes of highways, freeways, and tollways only makes the problem worse due to induced demand. The result is more time wasted, more noise, more air pollution, more stress from aggro drivers, and more car crashes.

If you're serious about reducing how much time is wasted in people's daily commute, just build more trains. Also, improve other modes of travel, such as making it safe for cyclists. And, encourage work from home.

#Quebec might be giving up on one of its more stupid #carbrained plans.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to have quite understood why it was always a bad idea.

They're now thinking about single-file buses.

Why the hell is it so hard to think "trains"?

Something to keep in mind with #SolarPunk is that #SustainableDevelopment tends not to look like towering sky-scrapers with a few trees growing on their side, but rather starts with smart land-use. Car-dependent #SuburbanSprawl is not smart land-use and is not #sustainable, it's a waste of #ArableLand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOndVouUSRA