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		<title>Reconsidering Induced Demand</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Induced demand is no doubt an important concept in transport planning, with wide-ranging implications for the efficacy of certain investments &#8211; especially in large road projects. However, it seems that induced demand is brought up all too often as an excuse for the failure of public transport to compete against the car, fitting into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=207&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Branding in Melbourne</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presentation of a public transport system to the public is of great importance. Branding of a system, when done well, comes to not only symbolise the the system, but the city as a whole (as we’ve seen with London and the tube). Although the branding of any given system will only be as good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=203&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transport Textbook live!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aformentioned group blog is now set up and ready to go! The address is www.transporttextbook.com
To write articles, register at the site (there&#8217;s a link on the meta section of the right sidebar) and if you&#8217;ve been commenting here I can generally make you a contributor. Otherwise, just drop me an email at phin.melbptATgmail.com.
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		<title>Group blog almost ready</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been quiet here over the last week, but that hasn&#8217;t been from a lack of activity on my part. If you cast your minds back to the Common Resource post from a couple of months ago, you may see that I promised to get that group blog set up. Well, with Midga&#8217;s kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=196&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ALP gone in WA &#8211; what now for Transperth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Against all odds, it seems that the Liberals will form the next government of Western Australia. I&#8217;m no expert of WA politics by any stretch &#8211; but with the Liberals and ALP both holding 24 seats, and the Nationals with the balance, I can&#8217;t see how it&#8217;s going to go Labor&#8217;s way.
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		<title>Prospects for Proper Light Rail in Melbourne</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had actually started this post with the intention of discussing tram priority measures in Melbourne&#8217;s narrower streets. I was thinking about things like full time clearways, proper traffic light priority, blanket right turn bans etc., and whilst some of these might be sensible policies (especially traffic light priority and some right turn bans), I&#8217;d [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=179&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doncaster Bus Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As has been quite rightly noted, I haven&#8217;t written all that many posts on buses. So I thought I might have a look at buses for a change &#8211; more specifically Doncaster buses. As I&#8217;ve blogged on numerous times before, I favour the provision of heavy rail to Doncaster Hill (running at near metro frequencies) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=172&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Common Resource?</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/a-common-resource/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ninthnotch suggested on Riccardo&#8217;s blog that it might be a good idea to have a common resource for some of the issues we&#8217;ve been discussing, and I personally think it&#8217;s a really good idea. I was thinking along the lines of setting up a new site (probably just a wordpress blog to start with because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=169&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subterranean Homesick Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Austin reports in today&#8217;s Age that Eddington&#8217;s &#8220;Paris Metro style&#8221;* rail tunnel is looking increasingly like becoming a reality. Apparently, &#8220;Some Labor Party strategists believe a commitment to a rail tunnel would help Mr Brumby to go to the 2010 election portraying himself as a man of the future with a low-carbon-emissions plan to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=164&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy rail to Highpoint?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking through the Eddington Report public submissions (by which I mean browsing Vicsig and looking at what the media&#8217;s picked up on), and I was somewhat surprised to see that Highpoint&#8217;s submission being picked up by the Herald Sun for its suggestion that the Flemington Racecourse line be extended to Highpoint Shopping Centre. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=melbpt.wordpress.com&blog=1636583&post=156&subd=melbpt&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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