Some 34 countries have high-speed rail or are about to get it. Yet since it was for proposed for Australia in 1984, no local plan for high-speed rail has got further than the drawing board.
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Megaprojects are what take society forward, whether building new transport infrastructure, creating new technology networks or decarbonising the energy
Many years ago, in the snowy drifts of a deep Karoo winter up near the Wapadsberg between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock, I found evidence of a murder most foul.