Tag Archive for ‘public transport’
Bigger road networks or better public transport?
In her office at the Nambour headquarters of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, Cr Vivien Griffin pulls out the super-duper plan for the Mooloolah River Interchange and by the look in her eyes asks silently, ‘What do you think of that?’.
It’s then that you realise that projected population growth is sending people loopy, including road [...]
Electric cars will be the norm
A new CSIRO report on Australia’s future fuel challenges should prompt Federal and State governments to massively invest in public transport and help reconfigure our vehicle manufacturing industry to produce cleaner cars, according to the Australian Conservation Foundation.
The report, Fuel for thought: the future of transport fuels: challenges and opportunities, looks at the need to [...]
Car cold turkey
Without a doubt, the most glaring example of wasteful consumption is personal transport based on the motor vehicle.
Think of what is needed to build a vehicle with all its components, to keep it fuelled and running, to provide the infrastructure, highways, parking lots, to repair the damage it causes, to dispose of its rusting remains. [...]
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