Action for Public Transport (N.S.W.)

Current and forthcoming issues in Sydney transport

• Slowing, stopping, and reversing, the long-standing bias in favour of road expansion over other ways of bringing people closer to their destinations.
• Whether the revolving-door appointments of a string of NSW Treasurers will ever lead to a new era of finance in which Treasury boffins who can't see any value in deficit budgeting will be over-ruled, permitting essential development of transport services to proceed.
• Why Sydney's population has to keep increasing at about one thousand per week when there are serious limitations on essential infrastructure including water supply and public transport. Perhaps the federal government is using immigrants to help mask the effects that the large number of mature people who will soon retire will have on the economy.

Further reading

• Radio National Science Show 15 January 2005 Beyond Gridlock: An Impossible Dream? about traffic congestion in cities.
• Book Back on Track: Rethinking transport policy in Australia and New Zealand by Philip Laird, Peter Newman, Mark Bachels and Jeffrey Kenworthy. Published in 2001 by UNSW Press. Available from http://www.aussiecycling.com.au/books/productlist/3656/3656.html with updates at http://www.math.uow.edu.au/people/backontrk.pdf.
• The writings of George Monbiot, especially on transport.
• Book Divorce your Car! by Katie Alvord, available from New Society Publishers
• http://www.bestransport.org/cadrebest.html about sustainable transport in Europe.

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