Australia's Transportation Mess

The country is dominated by an unhealthy and chaotic system dominated by the car, argues a local planning professor.

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January 26, 2006, 7:00 AM PST

"AUSTRALIA'S urban transport system is expensive, unhealthy and dangerous. Unless large changes are made in the next 50 years, our cities risk economic and environmental collapse. Global warming is a real threat that is driving the need for a total rethink of urban transport delivery.

Melbourne's transport system is one of the most costly anyone could design. It is based on a system in which people are pushed into private vehicles, urban areas are dispersed indiscriminately and vast new urban fringe highways are built. The planning and management of all forms of public transport has disintegrated and we spend almost nothing on walking and cycling."

FULL STORY: The mess that's our transport

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 in The Age

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