Useful quotes on Public and Active Transport ...

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Any quotes that might be of use please post here ...

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"You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system." -- Erol Ozan

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"Mass transportation for short distances, under a mile, should rely mainly on the pedestrian." —Lewis Mumford.

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''Whenever we increase road space we increase traffic. We are not fundamentally solving the problem of congestion ..." - Graham Currie

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"One 1500 metre freight train can carry the load of 100 semi-trailers, leaving our roads safer and our air cleaner." - Hon Anthony Albanese MP

Minister for Infrastructure and Transport
Minister for Regional Development and Local Government
Leader of the House
Member for Grayndler (NSW)

Economic Stimulus Plan; A progress report (2011, p1).

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Daniel Bowen ‏@danielbowen

20 people boarded bus at station. That's equivalent of about $350,000 worth of parking spaces, and less local traffic congestion

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"The landscape people created around railroads may have been better than the sprawl automobiles engender." — Historian John Stilgoe

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"In Houston, a person walking is somebody on his way to his car." -Anthony Downs

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"The automobile city is the anti-city which annihilates the city wherever it collides with it." - Lewis Mumford

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"There is no way you can ever sort out road congestion in Melbourne or any of the big cities unless there's viable public transport"
- Bill Shorten

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"Cars are currently over-engineered for the city, are not designed for cities. Then we proceed to redesign cities around those vehicles."

- Brent Toderian

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Yonah Freemark ‏@yfreemark

Other cities must follow Toronto example. Better use of commuter rail lines as rapid transit is a cheap and easy way to expand ridership

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"An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport,"Enrique Peñalosa.

http://www.ted.com/talks/enrique_penalosa_why_buses_represent_democracy_in_action.html

Good video to watch.

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"Trains do not depart: they set out, & move at a pace to enhance the landscape, & aggrandize the land they traverse."

—William Gaddis.

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"We buy our cars to go to work and then we work to buy our cars."

—Elliott Sclar

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"We don't have planning in Australia, we have marketing brochures."

- Prof Graham Currie

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" Light rail is driving an incredible cultural shift in our city ... "

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate

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The problem with "balancing transportation" - if you've been building for cars for decades, other modes can't catch up without prioritizing.

Brent Toderian

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Cars offer illusion that each individual can seek his or her own benefit at expense of everyone else.

—André Gorz

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Off peak discounting is a great way to encourage people who can avoid the peak to do so. It is about efficient use of existing resources.

Jarrett Walker

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For a fare increase/decrease of $1, how many people are shifted?

The reason why I ask is because cost = ticket price + (waiting time x value of time).

The second part of the equation is likely to dominate in off-peak times, while in peak times the first part of the equation is likely to dominate (as areas are flooded with rockets).

It is not clear what the values are for South East Queensland, quite murky actually, though plenty of data should be there from the massive fare increases to work out values...

Decent service outside peak would also mean that people would travel out of peak - as peak times are the only times when there is decent service in their area, particularly in Brisbane.

I would like to see a single concession rate rather than peak/off peak examined. Concession travels at flat rate all day, including peak hour. Everyone else has peak fare in peak and concession rate in the off peak.

Anyway, very complex and I'm sure the full smorgasbord of options will pop out in due course.

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We've been building cities as if the most important element is the car. We should be building like the most important element is the people.

Brent Toderian

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Sewage, garbage collection and paved roads are, for obvious reasons, vital, and can be provided only from outside. But even more important, in the well-informed view of slum-dwellers, are buses: affordable and regular bus service into the neighbourhood is often the key difference between a thriving enclave and a destitute ghetto.

Doug Saunders, Arrival City:
How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World. 
p 310.

via http://www.humantransit.org/2015/05/quote-of-the-week-priorities-for-slum-dwellers-.html

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Adding more traffic lanes to address #congestion is like loosening your belt to address obesity.

- Lewis Mumford.

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Our cities are crucibles of enterprise. They need public transport. It's good for you.

- Malcolm Turnbull

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Jason @justanurbanite
      
Free public transport does not greatly improve mode share, and wastes revenue best spent on improved services that do improve mode share

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" Often people are blamed for not using public transport, but we find people will use public transport if it meets their needs, and unfortunately over the decades we've provided public transport that suits the needs of the authority ... not necessarily the commuter "

Paul Turner RACQ
https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/traffic-reports/the-key-to-get-gold-coasters-out-of-their-cars-and-on-to-public-transport/news-story/cff8bd4bb47d194ce6268cf181e84a28

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" Trying to accommodate every train passenger by having them drive their own car to the station is like trying to give each occupant their own lift in a high rise building. "

Tony Morton PTUA

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" You can't change services without upsetting someone. At the same time, it's about the greater good to benefit the majority of people "

Andrew Constance
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/technician-s-control-room-error-causes-metro-trains-to-shut-down-20190729-p52bsz.html

Translation: Shut up NIMBYS and let progress happen!

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" You can't change services without upsetting someone. At the same time, it's about the greater good to benefit the majority of people "

Can someone frame this and send it to Adrian Schrinner?
And maybe Matt Longland can also have a copy to remind him to grow a pair?

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" A critical step for all cities is the acknowledgement that public transit is not just for the commute to work and "old people". It should provide mobility for all people and all purposes. "

Robin Sandell
twitter.com/UrbanFerryist/status/1188271981075939328

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"Designing streets for people that make it easier to bike, easier to walk, easier to take the bus, that's the kind of recipe for the future success of cities. The cities that make these kinds of investments and changes are the cities that are growing and thriving in this century."

https://youtu.be/E85HMNJix_o

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"The railway is magic, ingenuity, evocation... probably the most beautiful and rational mode of transport.
Blessed are we who perceive its strength and beauty. We are those who... turn our heads to the passage of the train."

Papem Stern

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"Deeply reducing personal transport emissions this decade means flipping how our transport system works from one that is about moving around cars to one that really prioritises moving around people."

Climate Council

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"A city's creativity doesn't depend on cars. That's the 20th century. We're in the 21st."

- Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo

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https://x.com/humantransit/status/1828120405758091728

If there are going to be climate-justified subsidies for owning electric cars, there should be subsidies for not owning cars at all.

Jarrett Walker

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"People get on the bus when it works ... that changes behaviour."

Mark Collins