Infrastructure needs science, so who put the politicians in charae?

摘要

The recent productivity commission report into public infrastructure left the most important policy question unasked, namely: if there were better ways for planning and building transport infrastructure, would anyone actually be interested? Australians have become addicted to the political theatre that surrounds transport and planning. By contrast, successful jurisdictions overseas have placed infrastructure into a condition of mundane, plodding progress. To do this, they have taken infrastructure planning and financing out of the hands of politicians by-and-large, and have never looked back.