This is part 2 of a series of posts on the willful destruction of a wonderful piece of bus infrastructure in Sydney, a bus ramp connecting 2 bus lanes on the median…
Author: matt
Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng)
Sydney
2 oil exporters win soccer games for 2018 and 2022
At the time of the world cup soccer games in 2018 and 2022 the world will be in an oil and general energy crisis the magnitude of which will not allow us…
Fly, but leave your car at home
Under the new policies scenario in the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2010, chapter 3 contains a graph showing aviation oil consumption going up from a current 4.95 mb/d to 7.75 mb/d in…
Infrastructure expenditure by mode not commensurate with oil challenge
As oil production is peaking since 2005, expenditure for oil dependent roads has been increasing while at the same time investments in energy efficient rail are decreasing. Just the opposite of what should be done….
Yet more debt to finance Sydney’s toll-way expansion
But will $740 million be enough to complete the M2 widening? Out of $740 million of new loans given by banks to Transurban, $465m are only for refinancing old M2 debt, leaving…
Sydney builds huge sustainable basement car park in Darling Harbour prone to flooding by sea level rise
The string of peak oil and global warming ignorant decisions of the NSW government shortly before elections in March 2011 is endless. On the same day the IEA released its WEO 2010…
Diesel shortages in China
In a sign of things to come, a Chinese truck driver loaded 2 trucks on top of his truck, making it a triple decker truck, in order to save on fuel and…
Transurban’s M7 traffic 38% less than expected
According to Transurban’s ASX press release dated 17thFebruary 2003 on the financial close of the Western Sydney Orbital, now M7 (Project debt of A$1.25 bn and A$ 980 million equity) average daily…
Tollopoly on Sydney’s orbital
Round and round we go How that helps the money flow Or: why we always need new toll-ways Nov 11th, 11:11 hrs. The silly season has started. Time for a silly story,…
M2 widening increases Sydney’s oil vulnerability
In its final report on the M2 widening the RTA claims again that: “With reference to the M2 Upgrade project, traffic modelling across the Sydney network indicated that the proposed Upgrade would…