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Australia's Transportation Mess

Posted by: David Gest

26 January 2006 - 7:00am

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

"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
Source: The Age, January 24, 2006
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If hundreds of people in your community raised reasonable concerns about a planning program you developed, how would you respond? Perhaps you might call a community meeting, or ask community elected officials to reach out to community leaders.
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