OneTime
10-12-07, 07:17 AM
It seems that Melbourne has now taken over from Sydney in terms of drivers commuting to work.
The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/melbourne-last-in-public-transport-list/2007/12/10/1197135339566.html) - Melbourne workers are the biggest car users in Australia, with more than one million people driving to work each day.A University of Melbourne study has revealed that while Sydney has 190,000 more people than Melbourne travelling to work each day, Melburnians drive 8,000 more cars.There are 1,027,149 Melbourne drivers - or 73 per cent of commuters - and 1,019,000 Sydney drivers or 63.4 per cent of commuters.
I guess it doesn't surprise me in terms of people going for their cars instead of trains that are dirty, full and unreliable. (Don't get me wrong, the Melbourne Public Transport is not all bad, I've seen worse, but at times it does tend to let people down)
From my limited experience in Sydney, public transport was quite good - spacious and airconditioned and Sydney roads and drivers are notorious to be confusing and hectic, so it's no surprise that drivers are turning to public transport.
The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/melbourne-last-in-public-transport-list/2007/12/10/1197135339566.html)- Mr Stone said Melbourne had built more freeways than any other Australian city, which encouraged people to drive."We need to stop the massive freeway building which has seen Melbourne build the greatest length of freeways of any city in Australia," Mr Stone said. "And the frequency and connections (of public transport) need to be improved."Mr Stone said train travel needed to be comfortable and attractive, which would encourage people to leave their cars at home.
Yes and no - I do think that they have to make public transport more attractive if they want to encourage more people to use it, you can't simply stop building new highways and force people to go onto public transport - that way you'd have an even more crowded, unreliable public transport system that can't cope with the masses, as well as a crowded, gridlocked road system that can't cope with the masses either?
The building of some of the new freeways (Eastlink Extension and Pakenham / Officer Bypass) is going to make our lives a million times easier in terms of driving on the weekends - and simply getting to the other side of town.
Melbourne is a very widely spread out city which you can't connect entirely by public transport. You also can't forget that people still need to get from their houses to said public transport.
The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/melbourne-last-in-public-transport-list/2007/12/10/1197135339566.html) - Melbourne workers are the biggest car users in Australia, with more than one million people driving to work each day.A University of Melbourne study has revealed that while Sydney has 190,000 more people than Melbourne travelling to work each day, Melburnians drive 8,000 more cars.There are 1,027,149 Melbourne drivers - or 73 per cent of commuters - and 1,019,000 Sydney drivers or 63.4 per cent of commuters.
I guess it doesn't surprise me in terms of people going for their cars instead of trains that are dirty, full and unreliable. (Don't get me wrong, the Melbourne Public Transport is not all bad, I've seen worse, but at times it does tend to let people down)
From my limited experience in Sydney, public transport was quite good - spacious and airconditioned and Sydney roads and drivers are notorious to be confusing and hectic, so it's no surprise that drivers are turning to public transport.
The Age (http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/melbourne-last-in-public-transport-list/2007/12/10/1197135339566.html)- Mr Stone said Melbourne had built more freeways than any other Australian city, which encouraged people to drive."We need to stop the massive freeway building which has seen Melbourne build the greatest length of freeways of any city in Australia," Mr Stone said. "And the frequency and connections (of public transport) need to be improved."Mr Stone said train travel needed to be comfortable and attractive, which would encourage people to leave their cars at home.
Yes and no - I do think that they have to make public transport more attractive if they want to encourage more people to use it, you can't simply stop building new highways and force people to go onto public transport - that way you'd have an even more crowded, unreliable public transport system that can't cope with the masses, as well as a crowded, gridlocked road system that can't cope with the masses either?
The building of some of the new freeways (Eastlink Extension and Pakenham / Officer Bypass) is going to make our lives a million times easier in terms of driving on the weekends - and simply getting to the other side of town.
Melbourne is a very widely spread out city which you can't connect entirely by public transport. You also can't forget that people still need to get from their houses to said public transport.