[sustran] Moving People: Solutions for a growing Australia

[Eric Britton]

Moving People: Solutions for a growing Australia

  

When it comes to both old and new mobility, Australia offers an interesting
case. Along with a group of countries
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glance, and which would include of course the perennial United States with
the spacious Canada right in its footsteps, but which also a number of the
Nordic countries and in particular Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland who
have followed the toxic combination of personal wealth and ubiquitous cars
to the extent in which it has in many ways locked them into an all-car
no-choice system, the Australian mobility pattern is right up there with the
"best" of them. But life moves on and in every one of these countries you
will now find a growing number of individuals and groups who are questioning
the old ways. Have a look at this sample of leading edge new mobility
thinking in Australia. We find it both refreshing and instructive





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