[LINK] Electric vehicles and generation

[Eleanor Lister]

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Glen Turner wrote:
> <snip>
>> Personally, I think we're seeing the start of the end of the age of
>> everyday individual transportation.  Lots of advanced countries
>> cope without that now, so it's no the practicality that concerns
>> me.  It the lead time of large urban transit projects.
>
> ...not to mention the lead time in redirecting effort... hot on the 
> heels of the cross city tunnel, sydney is now awaiting the completion 
> of the Lane Cove Tunnel....haven't been paying close attention but I 
> think two car lanes and one bus/transit lane is proposed in each 
> direction... I think there is a similar plan for Paramatta Rd... the 
> tragedy of all this is that vast quantites of useful land, is being 
> used for roads and carparking in the CBD and inner city...
>
> Marghanita
the goss i hear around the traps is that the value of the cross city 
tunnel project has just been written down from $108,000,000 to .... wait 
for it, Vicc ... $8,000,000

ouch!

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Eleanor Ashley Lister
South Sydney Greens
http://ssg.nsw.greens.org.au
secretary at ssg.nsw.greens.org.au