i sold my manual sportscar and bought an auto buzz box, handles it way better
same here!
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
i sold my manual sportscar and bought an auto buzz box, handles it way better
Melb.Just curious...which of the capital cities would be generally considered to have the best infrastructure?
JIT
indeed, the traffic has got substantially worse. as soon as great eastern hwy is finished it will refill with traffic
i sold my manual sportscar and bought an auto buzz box, handles it way better
My two least favourites are Great EasternHighway and Lord Street/Reid Highway intersection. Have they done anything with the Lord street intersection yet?
Wha? Lord St in Perth and Reid Hwy around Malaga? Where do they intersect?
How long is construction on GEHighway going to last?? Its been like that for ages!
Once upon a time - and it wasn't that long ago - you could travel just about anywhere across the Perth metropolitan area in 20 minutes.
"Be there in 20 minutes" was the catchcry for motorists.
The lack of traffic jams or commuter crushes were two of the selling points for anyone talking to visitors about the benefits of living in the country's most isolated capital.
Not any more. Like house prices, electricity prices, coffee prices, restaurant prices and taxi prices, the time spent getting from A to B is climbing and becoming a common whinge around the backyard barbecue.
Developers who created Perth's seemingly endless urban sprawl were happy to flog the far-flung house and land packages and let the State Government worry about how all those people with all those cars would get to work during peak hour.
Now, with new forecasts predicting a population of 2.4 million (an extra 650,000 people) in the Perth and Peel regions by 2026, dealing with public transport and traffic congestion is paramount.
"Any government that doesn't have a serious plan with a serious commitment of funds for public transport will lose elections," sustainability expert Peter Newman said.
The Curtin University professor does not mean a 20 or 30- year plan, as is the case in WA. He is referring to the need for a strategy to deal with a looming urban disaster.
"Perth will not be an attractive place and eventually it will begin to die," Professor Newman said.
cont...
he RAC shares the professor's anxiety. In its latest Horizon magazine, the organisation documented alarming statistics to show why congestion in Perth could soon become the number one issue facing government:
�There were 43,000 additional cars on WA roads in the past 12 months.
�At least 26 carparks the size of Patersons Stadium would be needed to park them.
�Congestion didn't rate as an issue with motorists in 2009 RAC surveys. Last year it was the third biggest issue.
�In the next 10 years there will be 400,000 more cars on the road.
_The West Australian _took part in a recent experiment with Channel 7 reporters to see which mode of transport offered commuters the fastest way to work from the northern and southern suburbs in peak hour.
Setting out just after 7.30am from Farrington Road in Leeming - about 19km from the city centre - a bike easily won the race against a car, which averaged between 15km/h and 20km/h for most of the roadworks-affected trip.
From Clarkson, the ride into the city by train was much faster than by car.
Perthites have nothing to complain about. They need to go to Melbourne or Sydney to see how good we have it.
Why the hell don't they build multi-storey carparks at the stations and triple capacity? Very stupid to have so much space and demand, and then only build a ground level carpark.
It's a conundrum. The trains already run every 3-5 minutes at peak hour.
That's my point.
Rail system almost at capacity.
The next step would be double decker trains and that could end up a very expensive exercise (raising heights of power, station mods, bridge heights, tunnels etc etc).