Total transport spending is about par for the course, but the pattern is unusual
- Written by Marion Terrill, Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
The budget just before an election seems to have a special quality: the transport infrastructure will surely be more plentiful than usual, and carefully chosen to shore up the electoral bulwarks. But don’t get too excited: this year the rhetoric may be big, but the scale of the numbers is nothing unusual. What is different is the pattern of...
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