Sydney Morning Herland reporting the NSW government is subsidising road tolls by $500 million, backdated to July 2022. Each driver can receive up to a $750 payment. These are toll roads operated by a private company, so are in effect a subsidy for Transurban.

> The premier defended taxpayer subsidies for drivers, and pointed out that public transport is also heavily subsidised.

Unbelievable.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230123215845/https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/half-a-million-sydney-drivers-expected-to-access-new-toll-relief-scheme-20230123-p5cev4.html

#tfnsw #sydney #transurban #nsw #roads #auspol

> Transurban group executive Andrew Head said new motorways could put a “little bit of pressure on the local network” immediately after they opened, although it was difficult to predict motorist behaviour.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/westconnex-missing-link-weeks-away-from-opening-20221216-p5c6xf.html

#westconnex #transurban #sydney

Today the #transurban residency in the former #Rochdale Barrack started here in #Bielefeld. Theres one month of participatory program in parts of the barrack space, open for public for the first time:
https://trans-urban.de/programm22/

I did some (partly #solar) #lightinstallations on the topics of #climatecrisis & #resourceexhaustion.

#fhbfg #DMX #Design

Hier in #Bielefeld startete heute die #Transurban Residency in der ehemaligen #Rochdale Barrack. Einen Monat gibt es hier Programm zum Mitmachen in einem Teil des erstmals öffentlichen Kasernengeländes:
https://trans-urban.de/programm22/

Ich thematisiere mit mehreren (teils #Solar) #Lichtinstallationen #Klimakrise und #Ressourcenverbrauch.

#fhbfg #DMX #Gestaltung