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Brisbanetimes --> Car use zooms back, risking Australia's climate targets

Australia's returning love affair with the car, coupled with a sustained scepticism of public transport that sunk in during the pandemic, is threatening Australia's ability to reach its legally binding climate targets. ...

... "A long-term modern transport strategy absolutely needs to include much greater shares of public transport.

"It will not do for governments to simply say that people should take public transport," Jotzo said. Australia's relatively low share in public transport use compared to other developed nations was largely driven by the fact infrastructure had not kept pace with population growth and demand, he said.

"To get people out of their cars and onto public transport it needs to be very attractive, it needs to be comfortable and more importantly, it needs to be frequent, it needs to be reliable and it needs to be affordable."

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