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Resurgence of Value Capture

30 July 2021 -
Sydney Metro has recently announced the addition of Pyrmont station as part of the Sydney Metro West project. ... 2. NSW Government, Sydney Metro City & Southwest, Final Business Case Summary, October 2016.
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2021/08/02/resurgence-of-value-capture.html
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5 minutes with Steve Muscat

27 May 2021 -
Various Australian governments are making significant investments in rail transport. Sydney is getting its first driverless automatic train in the next few years with the installation of the Sydney Metro.
www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/news-and-events/news/2017/09/22/5-minutes-with-steve-muscat.html
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Gutting the Greater Cities Commission

6 July 2023 -
The A$26.6 billon Sydney West Metro, for example, connects Sydney’s two central business districts, but bypasses the residential hot spots just west of the Parramatta CBD.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/06/gutting-the-greater-cities-commission.html
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Mobility as a service

28 March 2022 -
Edmonton (Canada), BusNSW, Busvic, Bus Industry Confederation, Busways Group, Buslink Queensland and Metro Trains Australia.
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2018/08/05/mobility-as-a-service.html
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Corridor protection for infrastructure and transport

31 October 2018 -
This required a strata title through various building basements. Given that Metro Sydney has now adopted an entirely different alignment through the CBD, this seemingly sensible – at the time - planning precaution ... Those of us around at the time
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2017/10/26/corridor-protection-for-infrastructure-and-transport.html
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Pitfalls for private financing of public projects

22 February 2024 -
By contrast, recent published project summaries in Australia, for example, Melbourne Metro PPP, indeed quantify the future financial obligations. ... Melbourne Metro Rail Authority/Victoria State Government, Metro Tunnel Project Summary, February 2018.
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2018/05/15/pitfalls-for-private-financing.html
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The growing importance of equity in planning cities: recognising the value of improved mobility for those at exclusion risk

5 September 2022 -
11). In similar vein, drafts of Vancouver's updated Regional Growth Strategy (Metro Vancouver 2021) and Regional Transportation Strategy (Translink 2021) talk about equitably sharing the benefits of the city, the ... Metro Vancouver 2021, Draft Metro 2050
www.sydney.edu.au/business/news-and-events/news/2022/09/05/the-growing-importance-of-equity-in-planning-cities--recognising.html
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Prof Tony Weiss elected to the US National Academy of Inventors

8 December 2021 -
Professor Tony Weiss has become the first academic from the University of Sydney elected as a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, a rare honour for international researchers.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/12/08/tony-weiss-elected-us-national-academy-inventors-nai-fellow.html
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Thinking public transport, electric cars and the roads we drive on

1 June 2022 -
An example he uses of a flawed rail solution is the Sydney Metro Northwest. ... Construction began in 2011 with the first driverless metro train completing the full journey in January 2019 between the newly gazetted suburb of Tallawong, in north west
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/04/05/thinking-public-transport--electric-cars-and-the-roads-we-drive-.html