Skip To Main Content
Mathew Sharp on Muck Rack

Mathew Sharp

Hobart, Sydney
As seen in: The Herald Sun, The Advertiser (South Australia), The Mercury (Tasmania)
Covers:  Transport, infrastructure, planning, history, urbanism, architecture, street design
Transport planning and policy professional. Researcher and Advocate for public transport and infrastructure. Hobart born and raised. Views mine.
Back to Mathew Sharp’s profile

Articles by Mathew Sharp

Bikes on buses in Tasmania

|
By Mathew Sharp
| mathewsharp.com
Image: Metro Tasmania bus #325 fitted with a bike rack during public testing days. Credit: Neil Robins Over the last twenty years, there have been attempts to integrate active mobility and public transport in Tasmania. Across Australia, it is not common to see bicycles carried on regular public buses, while bikes on buses in Tasmania is even less common. In other states and territories, trains and road coaches have the space for carrying bikes, aiding their integration into the transport network.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

"Privatise or perish" - The deregulation of Metro Tasmania - Mathew Sharp

|
By Mathew Sharp
| mathewsharp.com
Yesterday the Tasmanian Premier, Jeremy Rockliff, announced his intention to privatise public assets to curb increasing state debts, including public transport operator Metro Tasmania Pty Ltd. It appears that this announcement has a sense of history repeating itself. In this essay, I explore the history of when the Metro authority became corporatised, and how the government last tried to privatise Metro.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
Show More