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Australia needs to follow the US in funding urban rail projects

  • Written by Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Australia should look at examples from the US in finding private funding for urban rail development because the present model depends on government providing the capital, which it mostly doesn’t have.

A new rail line in Florida called Brightline is the first American example to show this can be done. This rail project is entirely privately...

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