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With more than a million Australians using public transport to get to work each day, demand for car parking at the station is virtually insatiable. Philip Mallis/flickr

$500m for station car parks? Other transport solutions could do much more for the money

Nathan Pittman, The University of Melbourne; Crystal Legacy, The University of Melbourne; John Stone, The University of Melbourne, and Rebecca Clements, The University of Melbourne

The Commuter Car Park Fund announced in the budget sounds big, but is likely to create only around 30,000 extra spaces – a marginal benefit for Australia’s 1.2 million daily public transport users.
The A$6.7bn West Gate Tunnel project has similar problems to the cancelled East West Link. Andi Yu/AAP

Transurban’s West Gate tollway is a road into uncharted territory

Crystal Legacy, The University of Melbourne; Ian Woodcock, RMIT University; Jago Dodson, RMIT University; John Stone, The University of Melbourne; Nathan Pittman, The University of Melbourne, and Sophie Sturup, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Recent decisions to proceed with major road projects have not considered viable alternatives, despite this being a legal requirement.
An artist’s impression of the new river crossing to be built as part of the West Gate Tunnel project. Western Distributor Authority

Impending traffic chaos? Beware the problematic West Gate Tunnel forecasts

Nathan Pittman, The University of Melbourne; John Stone, The University of Melbourne, and Sophie Sturup, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Melbourne’s proposed road project relies on assumptions that inflate estimates of the traffic the new link will carry – but other choices about the future of transport are open to us.

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