Tristan Peach's blog

Trevor Rowe is chairperson of the Queensland Investment Corporation, a state-owned corporation that invests the super of Queensland public servants. He is now also the chair of BrisConnections, a private consortium that has been given the contract to build the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council's Airport Link car tunnel. So were is the superannuation of State government employees going, and what will be the most important urban transport investments in a future market that will be forced to acknowledge resource scarcity and the need for energy efficient transport?

The free-market housing solution of simply opening up cheap land on the fringes for housing will not provide the affordable housing we need. As well as addressing population issues we also need to re-think our overall approach to housing developments to reduce upfront and ongoing costs to the occupant. Sharing is one of the key answers to afffordability.

Send a message to the Queensland Premier to stop the destructive Hale Street Bridge and to build better public and active transport for Brisbane.

Cross-posted to www.notunnels.net.

See also: www.stopthehalestreetbridge.com, Managing car use in cities, Courier Mail story $55 million overpass to link with Riverside Expressway of 15 July 2008 together with readers' comments (132 in all).

Residents of Toowong and other inner-western suburbs in Brisbane who will be adversely affected by the proposed Northern Link tunnel should work together and put forward a united front against this absurd proposal.

Originally published on www.notunnels.net on 5 Jun 08.