{"id":3982,"date":"2015-01-03T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2015-01-03T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:44:03","slug":"sydney-plans-to-dismantle-rail-infrastructure-built-just-6-years-ago-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"Sydney plans to dismantle rail infrastructure built just 6 years ago (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crudeoilpeak.info\/sydney-plans-to-dismantle-rail-infrastructure-built-just-6-years-ago-part-1\">Sydney plans to dismantle rail infrastructure built just 6 years ago (part 1)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em 0px;\">Contents:<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em 0px;\">(1) \u00a0 Epping \u2013 Chatswood tunnel conversion works proposed<br \/>\n(2)\u00a0\u00a0 Removal of tracks at Epping and Chatswood<br \/>\n(3)\u00a0\u00a0 Operational flexibility reduced<br \/>\n(4)\u00a0\u00a0 Removal of signalling<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em 0px;\">What can the world learn from Sydney\u2019s future\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #313428; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trade.nsw.gov.au\/invest-in-nsw\/news-and-events\/news\/g20-leaders-establish-sydney-as-global-infrastructure-hub\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cInfrastructure Hub\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0established by G20 leaders in Brisbane in November 2014 and promoted in big hype by Australia\u2019s Prime Minister Abbott who wants to become known as \u201cInfrastructure Prime Minister\u201d? Well, read this bizarre story:<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-size: 16px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><strong>How to disable and remove existing rail infrastructure<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em 0px;\">In year 10 of peaking oil production outside the US and Canada and while dropping oil prices indicate that the so-called US shale revolution is too expensive for the world economy, the NSW government has embarked on a risky, expensive rail project, the 23 km long North-West Rail Link (NWRL), including a 15.5 km long tunnel. In principle, rail is one of the solutions \u00a0to the problem of peak oil, but not in the way it is done here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em 0px;\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"OLE_LINK4\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK5\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK6\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK7\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK8\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK9\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK10\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK11\"><\/a><a name=\"OLE_LINK12\"><\/a><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK11;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK10;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK9;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK8;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK7;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK6;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK5;\"><span style=\"mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em 0px;\"><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney plans to dismantle rail infrastructure built just 6 years ago (part 1). Contents: (1) \u00a0 Epping \u2013 Chatswood tunnel conversion works proposed (2)\u00a0\u00a0 Removal of tracks at Epping and Chatswood (3)\u00a0\u00a0 Operational flexibility reduced (4)\u00a0\u00a0 Removal of signalling What can the world learn from Sydney\u2019s future\u00a0\u201cInfrastructure Hub\u201d\u00a0established by G20 leaders in Brisbane in November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,595,617,2377,1263],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-australia","tag-oil-production","tag-peak-oil","tag-rail-infrastructure","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}