Gold Coast public transport use still down, but don't blame COVID or commuters

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Gold Coast public transport use still down, but don't blame COVID or commuters
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Are tax incentives the real reason you won't catch a bus to work? One academic thinks so.

abc.net.au/news/poor-planning-blamed-for-transport-problems/101682630Poor land-use planning and financial incentives are the Achilles heel to meeting public transport targets on the Gold Coast, an academic says.Public transport use remains down 35 per cent for 2021-22 compared with 2018-19, according to council's snapshot

"We are building a very car-based suburbia to the north, with people moving in with two, three and four car households. Professor Burke holds little hope for improvement across the Gold Coast until all three levels of government address the root cause of car reliance, particularly on the new estates of the northern Gold Coast.

"It's not sprawl — it's now much more sequential and orderly development, but orderly development of car-based suburbia."Resurgence of light rail "I’m confident this expanded public bus trial will be a success and the uptake of public transport in the north will continue."

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