Has nothing to do with how well designed or funded it is - more about the people that use it...
Nah, don't be old-fashioned, public transport can be great if it is properly designed and funded.
The reason public transport is so poor in certain areas is that certain governments have refused to properly fund it and would rather build roads. Very short-sighted thinking, I reckon.
Australia should be perfect for public transport. It is large, flat and has populations concentrated into cities which could be at each end of each high speed rail link. If we had more forward thinking governments we would already have high speed rail from Cairns to Melbourne. It's a national failure that we don't.
Has nothing to do with how well designed or funded it is - more about the people that use it...
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Maybe IF the State or local government paid for these LOCAL infrastructure projects themselves instead of relying on the rest of Australia to pay for them they would happen But God forbid making the locals pay via State taxation or via their rates.
It is FAR easier to blame the federal government than it is to blame the inadequacy and even in some cases corruption of the State government or Councils that are responsible for these projects
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And the roads are still probably at least 5 to 8 yrs behind where they should be.
And not much is being done about it.
Same with the public transport system,it’s a hopeless mess.
In the years gone by,think the Jo,Hinze days,they were ten to twenty years ahead,at least.
In that era people asked why would you build the M1 with 4 lanes each way?
Lucky they did.
The only reason there is no money to sort out these issues is miss management from successive governments,and no forward planning.
They love to beat their chests and say everyone is coming to Qld,we have all this fantastic growth.
But what they forget to say is there is no infrastructure to support the growth.
The traffic congestion in the south east area of Qld is causing massive costs to business,and flows onto the public,but no one seems to really care.
Virtually nothing is being done to sort it out,whether it is road or public transport upgrades.
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