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THE SOUTH EAST TRANSIT PROJECT (The South East Busway Project)

Report No. 39, July 1997 Great read this report.

Western busway! Northern busway, eastern busway. Fascinating for 1997.

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Excerpt from preface:

This committee considers transport planning for the future of south east Queensland an extremely important issue. Evidence before the committee clearly shows that if residents do not reduce car travel and adopt public transport the region will disappear under a maze of freeways and overpasses and choking smog. Brisbane may well become another Los Angeles. For this reason, the committee applauds Queensland Transport’s attempts to do something to increase public transport usage and reduce the use of motor cars.

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Interestingly, not only that, but in Toronto the train would be coming every few minutes all day. In QLD at the time, the service would have been 30 minutes or worse.

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The issues highlighted in the report in 1997 are still largely here today.

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Give it 2 years and it will likely be as pertinent then too when it’s 30th anniversary is celebrated/commiserated.