Sydney commute times balloon by up to 60 per cent

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Commuters in 70 per cent of Sydney suburbs have experienced a blowout in travel times despite billions spent on roads and transport | pallavisinghal_ Rabe9

People living in 70 per cent of Sydney suburbs have experienced a blowout in commute times over the past five years despite billions of dollars being spent on roads and transport.

"If we provide people with a faster, reliable alternative to driving, we'll get them out of cars and commute times will start to go down to something more reasonable." A Transport for NSW spokesman said the government was investing billions in infrastructure to improve travel times in Sydney's west. Most notably, the average commute fell by about 6.2 kilometres for those in the Blue Mountains, 2.9 km for those in Fairfield and two kilometres in Auburn and Leichhardt.

 

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pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 What do you expect when continuing the rampant population increase? We're chasing ours. By the time anything is built it's already obsolete. We need to take a breath & figure out sustainable progress, not this infinite build, expand & build again syndrome. auspol

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 It's called excessive population growth! The federal government must provide full funding for infrastructure. Currently immigration is a Canberra every year, so the federal government must fully fund the equivalent infrastructure for a Canberra every year. auspol

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 It’s taken NSW roads over 4 years to build a 1.3 k section of underpass in Frenchs forest and still not finished. Traffic is gridlocked all day yet no effort made to speed up construction.

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 gov's job used to be roads building using fuel tax But they get lazy they let d contract to priv operators at obscene licence they in turn milking us Pass the buck to d public We should turn the heat on them on their jobs

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 Well you want mass immigration, what did you think was going to happen?

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 And we know why that is. Population growth is too high. It is 10 times as much as European cities thanks to high immigration. Is this the Sydney residents want?!

VoteSustainable pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 Growth is the disease masquerading as the cure. It's time for our corrupted major parties to put people ahead of property developer donations. STOPoverdevelopment STOPcorruption VoteSustainable

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 Some ingredients missing on this article: * What were the estimated usage of infrastructure that has been put in place over the last 15+ yrs? * Do the estimates of usage match reality of today? Looking ahead will privatising the buses going to help?

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 High Immigration & refugee intake puts pressure on our “Water“- Hospitals-Schools- Housing & traffic congestion. Why I voted for Pauline Hanson One Nation, Clean up our backyard before flooding our country One Nation policy on immigration

pallavisinghal_ Rabe9 when wages are stagnant toll charges go up n up 2x inflation By using priv operators NSW is creating fiefdoms of conc to fleece us So all the tolls r not easing as drivers take short cuts avoiding too many toll gates

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