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Recent Herald editorials in favour of public transport

posted Saturday 23 November 2002
On 25th June 2002, the lead article in the Sydney Morning Herald, entitled Freeway running rail off track, discussed how the recently-opened M5-East freeway had attracted patronage off the parallel East Hills railway line. "Quality roads discourage rail public transport", it concluded. As the Minister for both Roads and Transport, Mr Scully's task of evening the balance had become a lot harder.

On 22nd November 2002, Flip side to faster travel pointed out that main road conditions around Sydney had continued to improve, with the result that some peak-hour travel speeds were faster than in 1990. "It takes stamina and nerve to resist public clamour for ever more roads. But applying the brakes, even tapping on them, should be a surefire way of encouraging greater public transport patronage if commuters are offered a useful, integrated alternative."



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