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I would say thank you AMP for having shelved what would have been a monster now and in 50 years from now. I hope that the AMP has not revised this decision in the light of this crazy road development by our ephemeral pollies...

Hopefully the silly massive road project designed to create massive traffic jams will get canned soon.

The chief executive of WestConnex, Dennis Cliche, told a public forum on Monday night the link between St Peters and Rozelle was essential.

And even some opponents of the combined motorway projects support the idea of a tunnel bypass of the inner west. The Mayor of Marrickville, Mark Gardiner, told the forum at Enmore Theatre that the WestConnex would make traffic worse, but focused on the four-year wait for the construction of the third stage to start.

"If this motorway is going to be built, Stage 3 needs to be advanced," Mr Gardiner said.

"We cannot allow 100,000 vehicles a day to impact on the existing surface roads of the St Peters area," he said.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/roads-minister-duncan-gay-predicts-newtown-nirvana-if-third-stage-of-westconnex-is-built-20150225-13ohcy.html

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the mike show: same shit - better presentation...

See toon at top...

Think tank the Grattan Institute's book on Australia's congested cities should be a wake-up call for policymakers to improve infrastructure and reduce the economic and social costs of daily commuting. It should also spark a much-needed debate on teleworking. This is a term that covers working from home, but also includes other modes of working such as working at places such as libraries, hubs and co-working spaces.

City Limits: Why Australia's cities are broken and how we can fix them details what those who live in outer suburbs already know: the nightmare daily commute is taking longer, reducing the quality of life, and inflating inner-city house prices.

About 29 per cent of full-time workers in Sydney commute for more than 10 hours a week, according to Grattan. That will rise in the next five years as capital cities expand and cash-strapped governments struggle to build infrastructure to support larger populations.

This trend has significant consequences for business: workers will be forced to live further away from work, spend years of their life in traffic and be less productive. It also has consequenves for the economy: higher costs, an unhealthier, stressed workforce and social problems because of less family time.

But all policymakers talk about is building more roads or public transport – a worthy debate, although too narrow. The reality is large infrastructure projects cost billions, take years, require significant electoral support and will not keep up with coming population growth in capital cities.

Different thinking is required. I have long argued the merits of telework: employees who are able to spend all or some of the week working from home or outside the main office.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/the-venture/there-is-a-solution-to-traffic-chaos-20150304-13v43r.html

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The one MAJOR problem with this (and Gus is in favour of teleworking from home when possible) is that most offices rely on feudalism. From the top manager down, there is a hierarchy of command in which the importance of jobbing is related to the fiefdom. Managers want people underfoot to manage, delegate cleaning their messes and boss around (often humiliate) when controlling job performance. As well, most big firms want people to populate their prestige large offices, offices that often cost far more than the workforce does to run. Renting, buying, naming rights, running air conditioning, one-up-man-ship of being one floor above the opposition, etc.

Presently the inter-communication as proposed by Malcolm, the "internet (steam driven) inventor", is ludicrous. His blue cable to the old copper network is basically doomed to failure and will doom to failure any business that tries to decentralise by using "home offices". As well, supervisor would not be breathing down everyone's neck to make sure no-one was loafing... Company time is company time. Thus little Hitlers could not have their their dose of exercising their psychopathic inclinations, should you work "from home"... 

So be prepared to still travel 12 to 20 hours a week despite all the transport tunnels designed to displaced the traffic jams from one spot to another. The major purpose of the WestCONnex is not to improve traffic so much but to provide DEVELOPERS with lands taken on behalf of the "WestCONnex" and "improved" with high rise buildings with low ceilings and inefficient power rating but "PACKING THEM IN"... Half of the influx of these new inhabitants would be enough to re-jam the whole transport system again in five minutes.

Ugly. Place the Liberals (Baird's party of CONservatives) last on your ballot papers.