Driving on open roads is fun, but commuting in traffic is soul-destroying. Traffic is like a gas: it expands to fill the space available.

Therefore NSW will build no more new road capacity. The RTA will continue to maintain and upgrade existing roads - for safety and amenity. At the same time we will endeavour to not only maintain traffic flows on roads, but progressively reduce them so that they become safer and more pleasant to travel on for cars, light vehicles, cyclists and…

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You may have noticed that in my last post I omitted a definition of "the right decision". That's probably not helpful, so I'll try to do so here.



We all have some ideas that are based on deeply held philosophical positions, which people like to put into boxes called Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian or whatever. Right now in NSW however that's not the problem; we're not split on ideology. We're united in a desire for the basic infrastructure of the state to work properly. Hospitals,… Continue

That's us. As Lawrence Lessig reminds us in his video intro to "An Open Transition", we make our stand thus:



"without any authority, without any power, except the power that's implicit in everything that happens on the internet: the power simply to be persuasive to those who are committed to getting the question right".



That powerlessness is… Continue