Australia Needs Free Public Transport: Free trips not costing us: Qld government

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Free trips not costing us: Qld government | The Courier-Mail: ""We believe these passengers wouldn't be travelling in any case in the past because they felt that public transport wasn't affordable," he told ABC Radio."

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Travelling with a light footprint Australia's cities and suburbs are increasingly being built around cars, not people, and more of our intercity travel and freight is going by road or air instead of rail. In a world where peak oil and climate change are converging, this has to change fast. We have to redesign our cities for people instead of cars, with urban villages connected by fast, efficient and convenient buses, trams and trains, cycleways and pedestrian paths. We have to give ourselves real alternatives to flying between cities. We have to end the subsidies to fossil fuel based transport. We have to think a few steps into the future, instead of repeating the same old mistakes of the past. ReadMore [pdf]

Australia Needs Free Public Transport

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Free trips not costing us: Qld government | The Courier-Mail

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