{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6107c17b53204f00192347fa/6901d14886e5b271ca2aa086?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"A BIG & CLEVER IDEA: AUSTRALIA’S HIGH SPEED RAIL","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6107c17b53204f00192347fa/1761726597295-6ea768b4-1afd-41e0-9979-6394f3a88fc1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Tim Parker has massive experience of successfully managing big urban infrastructure and development projects.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, he shines a light on his unique insights from an impressive CV&nbsp;and speaks with both passion and clarity about&nbsp;leading&nbsp;his latest large-scale project: the Federal Government’s initiative to build high speed rail initially between Newcastle and Sydney on Australia’s east cost, with the ambition to build further on this link in future.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a massive transport undertaking,&nbsp;promoting a low-carbon transition from car and air over to rail, and&nbsp;economic and housing development and community opportunity – a project of national, and we think international, significance of interest to listeners from a wide range of professional and policy backgrounds and countries.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Big ambitions for a big country: seems about right to us.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p>","author_name":"GRIMSHAW"}