Sydney's Town Hall was
drowning, in a sea of buses. John Cowper records the transformation to a light
rail, livable city environment, stretching to the eastern suburbs. The reader
walks through a forest of "then and now" photos and a detailed
written explanatory history, before launching into a nuts and bolts, photo
construction diary, over 265 pages. This is an engineering and social history
containing some 1,000 mostly colour photos, not to be missed. - Greg
Travers. 

The book provides a very detailed, stage-by-stage review of the light
rail system as it progressed, including track laying, route development,
landscaping, etc., supported by many photos.  Very well done.

An excellent and well-researched discussion on the south eastern light
rail project which was a major undertaking and beautifully presented with lots of supporting photographs.

 Keith Mitchell

“John Cowper gives us here a remarkable
and unusual book about an even more remarkable and unexpected urban
regeneration project.”

Robert Lee,
author of Transport, An Australian History.