WESTERN SYDNEY 2030 - transport feedback

John Svoboda -Chairp 2010-04-09 11:21

I personaluy believe if you can leave your car at home , reducing carbon emmissions, you can travel on cheaper transport that if ten time the amount of people travel more on public trasnport; buses and/or trains then more efficient servicves can be provided thus further increasing employment within the transport industry.


Hayley Ballis 2010-05-06 22:10

The area of Western Sydney needs vast improvements in order to be more sustainable for the residents, in particular the buses need to be more frequent for the residents without transport, the 784 and the 786 bus comes every half an hour but it stops at 10:30pm terminating at the shops how else are the residents supposed to come home, the buses that go to regions without a train system run less frequently around those regions shouldn't there be more buses to accommodate those needs for people without a car, what about the trains in the western line, one train to lithgow with only 4 carriages that is ridiculous while all the other trains into the city have about 8, more frequent trains to lithgow and there wouldn't be a clog up with everyone wanting to get the train at 4:00pm each day, the proposal lies with the government, but with all due respect the public transport system is a joke, look at other countries you'll find they probably have more success than us, shame on you Kevin Rudd.

Sustainable Urbansim 2010-05-10 10:37

Hayley,There are villages outside of Zurich, with lower population levels than much of western Sydney, yet they have much more frequent services, and consequently, much higher patronage - because the services also go where people need them to go to.Approx only 38% of all journeys are journey to work, and the vast majority of frequent bus services are actually for journey to work, with all other journeys poorly catered for.There are many many cities that we can learn from for good transport.


David Wilson 2010-05-07 06:25

The four main transport policy options for Western Sydney need to be debated and agreed:- 1)Stop designing car dependent suburbs.2)Set up a dedicated Development Agency for Western Sydney.3)Develop a robust transport funding framework to implement a sustainable transport plan.4)Move into a new era of designing a carbon neutral resilient city that is self sufficient with public transport and walking and cycling networks and reduced reliance on road transport and congestion costs.

Sustainable Urbansim 2010-05-10 10:32

David,It is not quite as simple as you make it out to be.
1. Our suburbs need be designed with an understanding of how connections are made across various modes of transport; and how each of those work to create local, regional and city-wide connections.
2. Dev. Agency? For what purpose? Wholistic, well founded planning with clear goals, and whole of community involvement from the regional scale to local works best - co-operation between all groups for a positive outcome.
3. Agreed.
4. Do we actually know what these high and mighty terms mean? Carbon Neutral? in what way/s? resilient city? for who and what? self sufficient - in almost all of history no settlement has been fully self-sufficient in everything ...