http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/25/a-tale-of-2-cities-stuck-in-the-20th-century Protecting Environment = Protecting People Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/25/a-tale-of-2-cities-stuck-in-the-20th-century#comment-161 Roy Carter Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:46:16 +0000 http://www.botanybay.info/2008/01/25/a-tale-of-2-cities-stuck-in-the-20th-century#comment-161 The recent announcement that the Defence National Distribution Centre at Moorebank has been sold and is now touted as a container terminal comes on top of the much promoted Moorebank Intermodal set to carry 500,000 TEU per annum. The South West of the city is set to be swamped by more freight than it can handle. Globilisations drawbacks are emerging quickly! Only decentralised distribution will be sustainable in the long term I think. Meanwhile concentrating freight handling and distribution is seen as economically attractive. However when the city melds with traffic, doing business in Sydney will be economically repulsive to many. Will we all lose in the longer term? The recent announcement that the Defence National Distribution Centre at Moorebank
has been sold and is now touted as a container terminal comes on top of the much
promoted Moorebank Intermodal set to carry 500,000 TEU per annum.
The South West of the city is set to be swamped by more freight than it can handle.
Globilisations drawbacks are emerging quickly!
Only decentralised distribution will be sustainable in the long term I think.
Meanwhile concentrating freight handling and distribution is seen as economically attractive.
However when the city melds with traffic, doing business in Sydney will be economically
repulsive to many. Will we all lose in the longer term?

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