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At what point do people think there will be a serious push for more public transport in Australia generally and in their particular state?
NSW has had substantial growth in the use of public transport in recent years, 7% certainly hasn't been an unheard of figure, meaning that a doubling of passenger numbers in 10 years is well and truly on the cards.
My expectation is that said doubling might happen a bit quicker than that. But I'm certainly not sure when it's going to lead to real pressure to add more public transport.
The moment the politicians start to take public transport them selves is when a serious effort will be made. I give full marks for Malcolm Turnbull for using public transport. I wish more politicians will change and use public transport or bike as Tony Abbot does.
These are the only two I know from seeing in the news.
If there are any other politicians who use public transport or ride a bike to get to work it would be good to know so we can support them individually.
If we can get a group of politicians together to look at the real issues of peak oil outside the grasps of party ideologues we may start to get somewhere.