<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Whenever “nation building” gets trotted out you can be pretty sure the advocates of the subject proposal have little confidence in the logic of their argument. The big question to my mind is why anyone who knows anything about transport and cities still takes<wm> their word for it without bothering to explain their ideas and to actually do some facts. That may explain a lot. Not being a transport expert can be amusingly illustrated by an article in last week’s The Age “Transport Infrastructure: What to Expect” This is a handy, if unoriginal, headline. However, the article argues that Australia’s current transport infrastructure needs to be modernised to keep pace with the ‘expectations’ that are driving demand for higher efficiency and convenience.

I would expect that</wm> if transport infrastructure is not going to be modernised to keep pace with the need for efficiency and convenience