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The CARR that ate Sydney : Comments
By Garry Wotherspoon, published 11/8/2005Garry Wotherspoon argues Bob Carr's legacy to New South Wales is a congested road and inadequate rail services in Sydney.
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What I can never understand is why population growth is not treated as a problem that can be solved rather than some external factor that cannot be controlled. Unless people such as Garry start to treat it as a controllable input variable, like the quality of the public transport system, then we can only treat half of the disease.
Ironically controlling population growth for Sydney is much easier than getting people to take the train. The immigration minister can trim the immigration quota tommorow and that would solve the problem. This presumes that Costello's irresponsible three child policy does not increase our birthrate.
Carr was not an advocate of rapidly rising population. He may have not spent enough on infrastructure, but the pro-population growth lobby are more responsible for congestion than wa Carr