Botany Bay and Catchment Alliance

If you have a spare couple of days and a spare $2300 you too can attend the NSW Transport Infrastructure Summit billed as
Planning and investment for a sustainable future: 1st & 2nd November 2007. Sydney Harbour Marriott, Sydney.

Take a look at the list of speakers below.  Genia McCaffery(representing Local Councils) will be the only ‘rose’ amongst the ‘thorns’ yet again.  If those ‘thorns’ were serious about bottlenecks and congestion they would go in search of a sustainable national vision.  We are not going to get sustainability by overscaling the Sydney freight operation.

$5.8 billion will be spent on transport infrastructure in New South Wales over the next 4 years in a quest to reduce congestion, free bottlenecks and attract investment. However each state seems to be waking up simultaneously. With a booming national economy skills are tight, the private sector can be more select in the projects they target and competition with the other states is fierce.New South Wales has the biggest infrastructure plan, with expected spending of $50 billion over the next four years - 40 per cent of that will be borrowed. The NSW Transport Infrastructure Summit will bring together leaders and experts to assess the current state and future directions for NSW.

NSW Transport Infrastructure Summit 2007 will discuss:

• Integrated planning of transport projects
• The future of public transport with specific emphasis on Sydney
• The role of the private sector in developing transport infrastructure
• State and Federal government priorities for investment
• Improving the capacity of freight networks
• Opportunities for NSW in the national freight task
• Environmental sustainability in a commercial context

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