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Cars and urban mobility : Comments

By Ross Elliott, published 20/11/2018

Because we live and work in largely randomized locations across cities, a focus on urban productivity needs to acknowledge this reality and try to create transport systems that cater for the majority of commuters

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This statistic should give some indication of the increase of people in an area. It may also indicate the city planning people are not very good at anticipating future trends

Passengers at one Sydney station nearly double in three years

Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore says a shake-up of bus services in the city's south east is "just fiddling around the edges", as new figures reveal the extent of pressure on public transport from a population boom.

The number of passengers using Green Square station on a weekday has surged by almost 80 per cent over the last three years, from 11,680 in 2014 to about 21,000 in 2017, figures from the state's transport agency show.

Patronage at the station on the Airport Line rose, on average, at a rate of 25 per cent annually.

As part of changes to the bus network from December 2, capacity on routes to Green Square will by boosted by 9 per cent, providing room for an extra 20,000 passengers a week.

While welcoming the extra services, Cr Moore said it was "just fiddling around the edges" in an area facing an "unfolding crisis" because public transport services were failing to keep pace with demand.

"We’ve made it clear to the NSW government that they urgently need to upgrade and increase public transport networks – it is the number one issue for the area," she said.

Cr Moore said many buses in the area ran at more than 95 per cent capacity during peak periods while some trains carried passenger loads as high as 180 per cent of seated capacity.

On Tuesday morning, passengers were temporarily stopped from entering platforms at Green Square station due to overcrowding.

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http://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/transport-mess-passengers-at-one-sydney-station-nearly-double-in-three-years-20181119-p50gwf.html
Posted by Philip S, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 5:50:49 PM
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The drive for ever increasing productivity is a race to the degradation of humanity and dystopia. Society creates excess product so we have enough to support ourselves. We need protectionism in trade so that our imports don't impoverish us- we can never get labour as cheap as the 3rd world- others including the 3rd world are quickly growing the technical capabilities for high capacity production.

Many advanced cultures will only survive by protectionism both economic and social.

According to the article more efficient transport systems are required for more productivity. Others have said we need more people for more productivity and larger consumer markets. Like Bio-dome 2 we live in a bottle- we also share the land with other species- many of us believe the world doesn't need 12 billion people.

Like the arms race of the cold war we now have a population race (population war) in a war to out breed other cultures. This looks interesting... http://www.population-security.org/swom-98-06b.htm

We need to manage our desires and excesses better- and understand what Aristotle meant by freedom. See http://arcdigital.media/patrick-deneen-thinks-there-is-something-wrong-with-liberalism-is-he-right-b4ea4c18828d
Posted by Canem Malum, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 10:00:47 PM
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