John Austen

John Austen is a happily retired former senior official of Infrastructure Australia living in Western Sydney. Details are at thejadebeagle.com.

John's recent articles

40,000 infrastructure defects reported in Sydney Trains maintenance backlog

40,000 infrastructure defects reported in Sydney Trains maintenance backlog

An update on Sydney Trains' little review

An update on Sydney Trains' little review

Another quiet little review into Sydney Metro

Another quiet little review into Sydney Metro

The NSW governments quiet little review of Sydney transport crises

The NSW governments quiet little review of Sydney transport crises

Sydney transport: formidable task ahead for NSW Labor?

Sydney transport: formidable task ahead for NSW Labor?

Infrastructure policy Pearl Harboured

Infrastructure policy Pearl Harboured

Infrastructure Australia should be abolished

Infrastructure Australia should be abolished

Restoring integrity to Commonwealth infrastructure spending

Restoring integrity to Commonwealth infrastructure spending

Dont believe what you hear about fuel excise and road funding in the forthcoming election campaign

Dont believe what you hear about fuel excise and road funding in the forthcoming election campaign

Policy wreck: we're being told two contradictory stories about NSW trains

Policy wreck: we're being told two contradictory stories about NSW trains

John Austen: Time to call time on Infrastructure Australia? It has failed

John Austen: Time to call time on Infrastructure Australia? It has failed

Newcastle Port decision: overreach, misunderstanding or both?

Car parks: certainly corrupt and probably illegal

NSW rail policy: more than cooking the books

Australia's infrastructure plans: why can't we get it right? Thorough inquiries are needed.

The curious case of the new airports metro

Fool's paradise: 'independent' advisers promote lie that transport infrastructure can lead a Covid recovery

Sydney's Metro mania is policy based on vanity

Transport infrastructure: our States biggest waste

JOHN AUSTEN. High Speed Rail shooting a corpse?

JOHN AUSTEN. Transport infrastructure in a Covid world

JOHN AUSTEN. Another year of record waste on roads

JOHN AUSTEN. Placating the Infrastructure Club

JOHN AUSTEN. Sydney Metro developments

JOHN AUSTEN. Electric Vehicle Charging

JOHN AUSTEN. Sydney and the mock Metro

JOHN AUSTEN. Infrastructure Claims - Above the law?

Infrastructure Australias believe it or not audit

JOHN AUSTEN. Post-election infrastructure review

JOHN AUSTEN. Fast rail - apologies please from perpetrators.

JOHN AUSTEN. NSW infrastructure: who is fit to govern?

JOHN AUSTEN. High speed rail - Please don't bite the bullet.

JOHN AUSTEN. Transport for an incoming NSW Government.

JOHN AUSTEN. WestConnex inquiry report.

JOHN AUSTEN. Public inquiries into NSW infrastructure projects.

JOHN AUSTEN. NSW farce rail

JOHN AUSTEN. A report by Infrastructure Australia on outer urban transport.

JOHN AUSTEN. Pain before more pain and then no gain in Berejiklians growing Sydney transport mess

JOHN AUSTEN - A public Inquiry into Sydney Metro is essential (Part 2)

JOHN AUSTEN - Inquiry into Sydney Metro (Part 1)

JOHN AUSTEN. Sydney's transport mess will now envelop Badgerys Creek Airport

JOHN AUSTEN. Bill Shorten and Western Sydney Rail.

JOHN AUSTEN. Sydney Metro: the $60billion dollar deception

JOHN AUSTEN. Australian freight policy: after the chainsaw? Part 3

JOHN AUSTEN. Australian freight policy: where is my chainsaw . Part2.

JOHN AUSTEN. Australian freight policy: where is my chainsaw? Part 1 of 2.

JOHN AUSTEN. Revolving doors at the infrastructure club

JOHN AUSTEN. Newcastle port restriction action not words please!

JOHN AUSTEN. Trouble in infrastructure paradise NSW revisited.

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