Aussies do infrastructure right

Australia’s Peter Newman (Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and author of The Reslient City) is on the Infrastructure Australia Advisory Council.  Their report, National Infrastructure Priorities,  just came out.

It’s significant:

Says Peter: “From our perspective, urban road projects no longer work at this point in our history unless they are primarily for freight and that is largely what the other funded roads are for. ”

So for the first time in Australia’s history, more money is proposed for rail than for roads:

There’s much more: a broadband network, a national energy market, ports and gateways, water (of course), and infrastructure that meets the needs of indigenous communities.