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Government has lost control of the wheel

By Tristan Peach - posted Monday, 11 July 2005


But why would the majority of people start using public transport when the government rewards motorists by investing the majority of transport funding into roads? If you are trying to teach your dog to sit do you smack it when it sits and give it a bone every time it runs away and bites the neighbour? No, that would be sending the wrong messages.

But this is what the state government is doing by treating public transport users, pedestrians and cyclists like second-class citizens, while pampering drivers.

If the government is serious about getting people on to public transport it has to reward people by making it more convenient than the car.

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It can only do this if they reverse the transport funding ratios in the infrastructure plan. A real plan would reverse the percentage of investment in public transport and roads.

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First published in The Courier-Mail on May 5, 2005.



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Tristan Peach and works as a part-time lecturer and tutor in urban and regional planning at the Queensland University of Technology. He is a member of Brisbane Group, Communities Against the Tunnels. He does not own a car and walks, cycles and uses public transport for most trips.

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