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Feb 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Presentations on Melbourne's #SuburbanLoop at a recent Institute of Transport Engineers meeting show the Loop is wildly different from every other rail loop worldwide.
The great SRL experiment: a thread ...
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Graham Currie, Prof of Public Transport at Monash University and an SRL sort-of-supporter, sensibly wants more city centres in Melbourne ("polycentricity"). But the SRL is "rather expensive" – he expects more than $125bn, cf original $50bn max.
His slides are WOW ...
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Mar 18, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: The bulk of government action over the next few months should be directed to keeping afloat the many businesses with #coronavirus-related short-term cashflow problems.
The correct lever to pull here is not "#stimulus" (i.e. sending consumers checks) but "#lending".
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Governments are rightly trying to "flatten the (infection) curve".
The more they succeed in this, the more businesses are headed for trouble. Some businesses just can't be run on ecommerce & work-from-home e.g. airlines, sports teams, restaurants, shows, most manufacturing.
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