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Car addicted Sindney destroys bus ramp near rail hub as tollway debt increases 60 pct at least
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis web-site continues to monitor the disconnect between toll-way expansions in Australia and global crude oil supplies. The latest peak-oil ignorant action in car-addicted Sydney is the demolition of a […] -
M2 concession period extends into era of steep oil decline
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsWhat has been overlooked in Alan Jone’s 2GB campaign on the dumped BITRE report 117 http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/jones_bitre_25-01-2012.mp3 is that concession periods of toll-ways extend far into the era of steep oil […] -
Sydney now beyond point of no return
Posted on May 9, 2011 | No CommentsOnly days after the ABC TV broadcasted an interview with IEA chief economist Fatih Birol who warned that peak oil happened in 2006 and that the world should have prepared […] -
Sydney’s RTA builds M2 exit lanes for $200 oil
Posted on April 4, 2011 | No CommentsThis is a M2 construction work update for calendar week 5/2011. Contractors have started to build exit lanes for $200 oil just as 3 parties are now fighting for oil […] -
Brisbane’s Clem7 Road Tunnel in Receivership
Posted on February 28, 2011 | No CommentsThe Clem 7 road tunnel (North South Bypass Tunnel) in Brisbane, conceived and planned in an era of $20 oil, has been placed in receivership. After the Cross City tunnel […] -
Money in Transurban’s cashbox not enough to complete M2 widening
Posted on February 11, 2011 | No CommentsTransurban ended up with a cash balance of $370 million at end 2010. $ 275 m of that amount is money provided by banks end of last year as part […] -
Queensland Reconstruction Bonds more important than Sydney’s M2, M5 widening
Posted on January 17, 2011 | No CommentsThe Queensland Premier is calling for a re-construction task of post-war proportions. What is required is not just a re-construction but an adaptation of infrastructure to future climate change because […] -
Sydney’s M2 toll increase high above RBA inflation target (part 3)
Posted on January 5, 2011 | No CommentsLet’s calculate future tolls on the M2 toll-way. Starting point for this analysis is this news item from 26th October 2010: Roads Minister David Borger said the RTA had signed […] -
Will Transurban ever pay back its debt?
Posted on December 9, 2010 | No CommentsTransurban, a toll-way operator in Sydney, Melbourne and the US has accumulated a debt mountain of around $A4 bn. Up to now, most of the previous debt, when due, was […] -
Sydney vandalizes its own public transport infrastructure (part 2)
Posted on December 7, 2010 | No CommentsThis 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 […]
![Car addicted Sindney destroys bus ramp near rail hub as tollway debt increases 60 pct at least This web-site continues to monitor the disconnect between toll-way expansions in Australia and global crude oil supplies. The latest peak-oil ignorant action in car-addicted Sydney is the demolition of a […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Bus_ramp_destruction_M2_Wrong_Way-115x115.jpg)
![M2 concession period extends into era of steep oil decline What has been overlooked in Alan Jone’s 2GB campaign on the dumped BITRE report 117 http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/jones_bitre_25-01-2012.mp3 is that concession periods of toll-ways extend far into the era of steep oil […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BITRE_Report_117_Peak_Oil_2017_M2_concession_period_2046-115x115.jpg)
![Sydney now beyond point of no return Only days after the ABC TV broadcasted an interview with IEA chief economist Fatih Birol who warned that peak oil happened in 2006 and that the world should have prepared […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/M2_Foundation_work_Beecroft_Rd_bridge_7_May_2011-115x115.jpg)
![Sydney’s RTA builds M2 exit lanes for $200 oil This is a M2 construction work update for calendar week 5/2011. Contractors have started to build exit lanes for $200 oil just as 3 parties are now fighting for oil […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Exit_Lane-1024x768-115x115.jpg)
![Brisbane’s Clem7 Road Tunnel in Receivership The Clem 7 road tunnel (North South Bypass Tunnel) in Brisbane, conceived and planned in an era of $20 oil, has been placed in receivership. After the Cross City tunnel […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Clem7-115x115.jpg)
![Money in Transurban’s cashbox not enough to complete M2 widening Transurban ended up with a cash balance of $370 million at end 2010. $ 275 m of that amount is money provided by banks end of last year as part […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/m2_beecroft-115x115.jpg)
![Queensland Reconstruction Bonds more important than Sydney’s M2, M5 widening The Queensland Premier is calling for a re-construction task of post-war proportions. What is required is not just a re-construction but an adaptation of infrastructure to future climate change because […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/e4708025f8a3c0e67ec4db5b2c5665e1_resized-115x115.jpg)
![Sydney’s M2 toll increase high above RBA inflation target (part 3) Let’s calculate future tolls on the M2 toll-way. Starting point for this analysis is this news item from 26th October 2010: Roads Minister David Borger said the RTA had signed […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mytoll-m2-v1-115x115.jpg)
![Will Transurban ever pay back its debt? Transurban, a toll-way operator in Sydney, Melbourne and the US has accumulated a debt mountain of around $A4 bn. Up to now, most of the previous debt, when due, was […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Transurban_debt_profile_by_maturity_2003_2020-115x115.jpg)
![Sydney vandalizes its own public transport infrastructure (part 2) 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 […]](http://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Bus_lane_Ramp_Tunnel-115x115.jpg)