If you live within seven kilometres of the city, just go straight from work. If you live further out, get off your public transport 5-6 kilometres from home and hoof it the rest of the way. Walking to and from work is much better than spending half an hour stuck under a faceless armpit on the train, writes Crikey reader Hannah Pick.
Traffic congestion
Should public transport users pay their way?
Public transport capacity has to increase enormously to deal with expected higher demand driven by issues such as peak oil, climate change and unprecedented population growth, writes Alan Davies of the Melbourne Urbanist blog site.
Brisbane’s tunnel vision: numbers look like pie in the sky
The original forecasts for Brisbane’s new Clem7 tunnel was more than 100,000 trips per day by the middle of next year. These numbers are unrealistic, writes transport expert Peter Quick.
You don’t have to be a roads scholar to work out congestion
Urban road transport is a vast public policy failure by governments that costs us billions of dollars a year, but it will go on being tolerated, chiefly because voters won’t accept the solution.
