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The city’s new underground rail stations are also impressive public spaces, showing how infrastructure can go well beyond the functional bare minimum.
In Portswood, bus users enjoyed reliable journeys and a calmer high street. But some residents faced longer and less convenient car journeys.
The former mayor made a name for himself outside the city with his record on transport.
The most important lesson for Australia is not to slow digitalisation, but to make it more resilient and remove single points of failure.
Tourist destinations can do more to encourage travellers to use public transport.
One party wants to lower fares. The other wants more services. Neither proposal represents a serious plan to address decades of public transport underfunding.
As cities grow, it would be better to have more efficient, higher-capacity transport than more vehicles on the road.
A high-speed rail line could operate without producing significant emissions. But this doesn’t mean it would substantially help Canada’s mitigation efforts.
Public transport access, travel time and familiarity with the network all play a role in how many people switch away from driving.
Electric taxis are a long-term climate solution whose immediate value lies in cleaner air, lower operating costs, lower noise and better urban health.
Some are calling for Australia to follow in the footsteps of other countries that are mandating WFH or shorter weeks. Here’s what the evidence says.
Promoting fuel saving measures as vital to energy security would help frame the oil shock as a technical problem to be solved, not a political issue to be fought.
Victoria and Tasmania have announced free fares, but NSW is firmly against the idea. Will it work to get people out of cars?
Every city is different but they can learn from each other.
Reform must recognise that the sector’s social capital is its strength and its weakness.
New trains are good, but a new approach to public transport would be even better.
Clogged up Britain
Melbourne’s rail network will feel the improvements immediately, but experience from Sydney and elsewhere shows changes in travel behaviour will take time.
Autonomous shuttle buses are planned for the Italian city of Trento that would pick people up at their homes.
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