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   Philip Thalis (philipthalis@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:43:58 JST Philip Thalis

   Let’s not be in any doubt- fixed rail infrastructure (whether heavy, light or metro) is the life blood of successful cities today.
   Yes expensive, but build it well & the investment will pay itself off many times over.
   Real #citymaking
   https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/trains-are-the-future-for-global-cities-let-s-not-go-off-the-rails-sydney-20230802-p5dt86.html

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     AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 21:04:00 JST AJ Sadauskas

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     @philipthalis Absolutely.

     Cancelling Metro West at this point would be an absolute disaster, leaving behind a literal multi-billion-dollar money pit.

     This is not a proposal on the drawing boards at this stage. This is not an engineering proposal.

     The land for the station sites has been acquired. Utilities relocated. Streets closed. Buildings demolished. Land cleared. Geotechnical exploration completed. Temporary structures at sites constructed. Pits dug. Tunnel boring machines imported, transported, assembled.

     Those tunnel boring machines are digging a tunnel under Sydney right now.

     Billions have already been spent on building this thing so far.

     To me, it just seems absurd that the NSW state government would even consider abandoning the project and just leaving an empty tunnel under Sydney.

     And all this uncertainty for the pantomime of showing the Murdoch press that Minns is fiscally responsible.

     #train #trains #nswpol #auspol #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #PublicTransport #rail #railways #railroad #Sydney

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     Ray McCarthy (raymccarthy@historians.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 21:38:48 JST Ray McCarthy

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     • AJ Sadauskas

     @ajsadauskas @philipthalis No-one, government or individual, should take any notice of any Murdoch organ anywhere, inc Fox News. Toxic.

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     Dan (dasy2k1@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 22:30:40 JST Dan

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     • AJ Sadauskas

     @ajsadauskas @philipthalis have you got the same politicians there as we have here in the UK with HS2?