Smaller projects are better for delivering broad, long-term value to communities across the country, reducing inequality and cutting emissions, as well as quickly providing jobs and economic stimulus.
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States across Australia are increasingly using market-led proposals to build infrastructure. The emerging problems reflect the inherent risks of projects that bypass proper public planning processes.
Transport modelling has been tarnished by its use to justify the predetermined projects politicians favour. But, if used more transparently, it’s a valuable tool for planning our future cities.
While called a transportation plan,
it was heavily skewed towards roads. We need the type of city-shaping thinking that underpinned the plan, but today’s plans must match 21st-century priorities.
Transport infrastructure has such an impact on what kind of city we become that more democratic planning is long overdue. But public consultation is typically limited and focused on design issues.
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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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Education Fellow in Transport Planning, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Transport, Director Public Transport Research Group, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University
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Academic Director Living Lab Northern Rivers, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Advisor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Monash University
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Transport Planning, The University of Melbourne