The commitment to ‘balanced regional development’, endorsed in the early paragraphs of every ministerial speech on transport and communications, is to be achieved through another speechwriter’s standby, ‘better internal connectivity’. Delivering on these aspirations has taken some strange turnings over the years, including the botched National Broadband Plan, and there has just been another one. The latest is the publication by the National Transport Authority of a strategy that would see transport investment directed mainly at railways rather than the road network, despite weak prospects for rail traffic. It is well understood that rail’s prospects for passenger traffic outside the…

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