Transport them out of already overcrowded cities (look mum, tinned people) by the simplicity of introducing a zonal tax system.

After that, we need to make far better use of current corridors. The green space that separates multilane commuter highways is an ideal site to hang monorails.

And should find plenty of willing customers if joe public can see them passing all and sundry. Moreover, the same corridors. Green separation areas will support an underground system that requires no new land resumption.

After tax zones, we need rapid rail and deionisation dialysis desalination to guarantee safe abundant potable water.

Very little of this would be possible without an energy policy that needs must include MSR thorium!

In fact, trying to fix congestion and overcrowding needs more than new rules! But rather a whole raft of new ideas and pollies not in developers' or big bank's pockets!?

Furthermore, we need a few with a better grasp of what is required. And thinking a little bigger than that required for local government. And a natural home for "leaders" and bean counters unable to think big or encompass the big picture.
Alan B.

Alan mentions the fact that expensive to the taxpayer, highly subsidised by the tax payer public transport is used mostly by the highly paid city centre workers to get to work. This leaves the usually less well paid workers to find their own way to their work, outside the city centre at their own expense. This expense increased by huge fuel excise & tax take, to pay for the subsidised public transport.

If he wants to get some equity into the mix, first all public transport must become full cost recovery, then perhaps fuel should be subsidised for the workers who have no public investment in infrastructure to help their travel.

I then wonder just how many new public hospitals he plans to include in this investment mix to cover the huge accident rate of 2 wheeled transport. Just watching one session of 24 hours in emergency would educate him on this.

Oh & while you're at it Alan, keep your hands off the motorists roads. He has paid through the nose in fuel taxes & council rates for those, & is entitled to keep them. If you want bike lanes, charge registration for bikes, & use the money to buy land & build them. Don't expect the tax payer to fund the infernal things either.

What is it with these planning people, who want to turn our rather hilly cities into poor copies of Amsterdam?

Eventually, through sheer need they'll wake up to the logic of Monorail ! Forget tunnels & bridges & parking. Imagine the parking space available UNDER a Monorail infrastructure instead of BESIDE the railway stations at present ?
When will our city planners get educated to think ?

As usual I think you are all oversimplifying things.
Personally, I can't stand 'public transport'.
It is too slow and does not cater to everyone and everything.
For those who work at a 'fixed site' job, fine you arrive at work in the morning and depart at night.
Same goes with city shoppers.
But if your one of the many trades and service industry, forget it.
So then you have catered to a minority, AGAIN.
No I say stop catering to the minority and look at the bigger picture.
One of those minorities is the bicycle brigade.
GO AWAY, is the best advice I can give.
Because these people feel entitled for some reason they carry on like petulant children and their case is just as frivolous.
All non motorised vehicles should avail themselves of the footpaths and the millions of dollars worth of cycle/pedestrian ways scattered throughout the cities.
But no, the sh!theads have to ride on the road, well I for one hope they keep getting injured or killed as the case may be till they get it through their stupid heads that, bike versus pedestrian, medical attention at worst.
Bike versus car, hmm, let's see, worst case scenario, DEATH!
How stupid are you.
Bicycles should be taken off major flowing arteries and moved to slower/safer back streets.
End of.
We should not be discussing transport in our capital cities.
We should be discussing de-centralising businesses outside and beyond the cities.
One look at the USA and you will see huge warehouses and distribution points located outside major cities, but alongside major freeways and highways.
Many production factories have also moved out.
The land is a fraction of the city prices and people can easily afford a house close to work.
We have to stop this city mentality, and focus on personal prosperity and success.
So instead of trying to squeeze more crap in an already crappy city, how about we look at improving the country roads into major freeways instead and maybe people will embrace the rural lifestyle instead of this pathetic version of an urban one.

I'd like to see Monorail as an eventual transport artery linking the States' major centres.
Cargo and, if needed, semi trailers could be transported closer to their final destinations then hook up the prime mover & job done. Passengers, cargo, fuel, mail etc could all be moved along the some route at eventual heavily reduced cost. Even water pipelines could be included. Such a project could be utilising National Service to a great extent.
A Monorail network could be an affordable, gradually expanding project.
All it needs is people in authority with a sense of Nation building. Start building & they will come !

personally if people choose to live in populated cities they should put up with some inconvenience. Plenty of jobs in the bush.