buses, and investment in areas still facing transport disadvantage. Days like today show why long-term transport planning matters. As a transport planning lecturer, I’m thrilled to see such a major investment getting people excited about public transport again.

services concentrated in the CBD. It’s a reminder that good transport planning is fundamentally about equity - connecting people to opportunities. Now the challenge is to ensure the benefits extend beyond the inner suburbs: reliable frequency, seamless interchange, coordinated..

the biomedical precinct, and other CBD campuses, workplaces...and facilities/amenities. A major step toward a more connected, equitable transport system. For many outer-suburban students, staff, patients and visitors, this delivers faster, more reliable access to...

Transport, of course, is as much of behaviour change problem as a technology improvement problem à la the 'Avoid - Shift - Improve' framework share.google/tPy5Np1kBAY3...

Aside from transport electrification and the'$100 million Active Transport Fund, High-Speed and Inland Rail' the 'Net Zero Plan' (www.dcceew.gov.au/climate-chan...)
does not mention much about increased investment in public transport services as a carbon abatement strategy...

A pleasure as always to work with Monika Da Silva Pedroso, @nessawinston-ucd.bsky.social, and Orla Dingley

All of this calls for integrated rural mobility and energy strategies, better #schooltransport, sustainable rural transport investment, and targeted support for low-income households, to break these cycles of disadvantage.

- Half of rural areas lack public transport, leaving many children “trapped” locally.
- Cumulative energy and transport poverty compounds disadvantage, independent of household income.
- Girls living in rural areas showed the highest mental-health vulnerability.

Agree that bikes and scooters have no place on footpaths, unless there is no other facilities/infrastructure for them to use, in which case what can they do, share roadspace with intimating motor vehicles?

....I said the CBD

It is a sign of things to come in the Upper Yarra Valley, and shows what can be achieved in a rural community to address transport related issues when participatory planning is encouraged.