Locals speak out: Getting Penrith on track 14,000 strong, community outcry with local Penrith City Council as online petitions calls on the federal government for infrastructure funding. Demands regarding dedicated funding for public transport access are growing as the public get behind Penrith City council and the Nation Growth Areas Alliance (NGAA). Online participation in petition submissions to federal government bodies has created a large movement and voice for residents of the outer Western Sydney suburbs. The campaign stresses the critical need for connection between the outer western suburbs and Sydney’s North West and South West. The proposed objective of convenient connectivity aims to generate more job opportunities and health access to essentially improve the well-being and togetherness of individuals within these communities. …show more content…
To have a meaningful, creative and productive society you have to be able to get people from their place of living to their place of employment. Health and wellbeing is dependent largely on your social aspects. If you work and live close to home, you’ll have more time at home, for both family and community. To achieve this you need a very efficient transport system,” says Mr Roth Fowler, Deputy Mayor of Penrith and spokesperson for the ‘Fund our Future’ campaign. To respond to rapid urban growth the campaign and NGAA stress a notion of ‘future-proofing’ our transport access for future generations. It is stated that over Five million Australians are experiencing insufficient public transport and urban congestion on our outer western suburbs. Mr Fowler stated, “If it isn’t placed in a timely manner, we will fail society into the future. Working too far from home, decreasing employment, mental stress, increasing sickness and depression are all signs of this. It’s not a loss of productivity in terms of producing something, it’s a loss of productivity in
It is the 21st century: more than 85 per cent of Australians inhabit the urban areas sprawling along the coasts, and more and more rural areas struggle to survive.
Port Arthur was Australia’s largest and most notorious prison holding the most vicious and hardened criminals from 1837 to its closure in 1877. The aim of Port Arthur was to produce useful goods and useful citizens, reformed men who have rejected a life of crime and embraced a law-abiding future. It was known for its tough punishment and structure. This essay will discuss the daily life at Port Arthur for convicts, punishments convicts received, trades that were practiced there and the merchandise that was created through those trades and what become of Port Arthur after transportation finished.
In the 1950s Newcastle was known as a sleep city, Dan described it as “moribund” (1) decades had past and very little economic development had taken place between that time frame and families were left to suffer. In 1959, T. Dan Smith became Leader of Newcastle City Council, he set up his own independent planning department in the council and appointed Wilfred Burns as chief officer in 1960. They both wanted to re-modernise Newcastle for the better by undertaking new road plans to resolve the traffic congestion that plagued the city and breath new life into the city by clearing out the slum areas and rebuilding new homes to help improve peoples living conditions. One way Smith helped promote his grand scheme was through a series of models and held public gatherings to help fuel his passion to help change Newcastle, a method used by Richard Grainger who greatly strengthened Newcastle’s status as a regional capital. In order to achieve Grainger’s equivalent he set out to get renowned architects to develop the city, like Le Corbusier , Basil Spence, Leslie Martin, Robert Matthew and even Picasso to help reinforce his vision for the future “Brasilia of the North” (2). In this essay I will closely examine T. Dan Smith’s proposed plans for the new urban motorway system, that would help solve the traffic problem. Also the redevelopment of Eldon Sqaure that would come under scrutiny, but would later become a commercial success. I will also investigate the new Civic Centre that replaced the Old Town Hall and the intention from the local authorities to demolish the Royal Arcade and replace it with a roundabout.
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under funded public transit and urban sprawl contribute to the need to take on this burden?
These include encouraging commuters to use public transport, decongesting public transport, decentralizing businesses from the Greater Toronto Area, investing in transport infrastructure, passing relevant transport legislation and dialog with stakeholders in transport industry. These solutions aim at discouraging the use of private vehicles and increasing the effectiveness of public transport to increase the capacity and speeds needed to reduce congestion in Toronto. However, it is important to involve all relevant stakeholders when developing solutions to the transport congestion since as earlier discussed, these people may offer very effective solutions to this problem since they are the major road users. The general public will also be keen to follow changes made to improve the transport sector if it is involved in the change process. This will ensure that Toronto has one of the best transport systems not only in North America but across the
Transportation systems are what support the high levels of accumulation and concentration within cities. The bigger the city, the more complex its urban problems are if not properly managed. The largest transportation problems occur when public transportation systems fail to fulfill the many requirements of urban mobility. Urban efficiency is highly dependent on its transportation systems to move consumers, labor, and goods from one point to another. The most outstanding urban transportation issues in the United States are: traffic congestion, longer commuting, inadequacy of public transport, green transportation difficulty, and good distribution (Rodrigue).
Sydney's population is growing rapidly. Currently, the future for the generations to come is looking bleak as pollution and sustainability are not up to speed with the increasing population.
Cities like Brisbane, Darwin, Adelaide, Hobart, and Perth have functions that have been largely absorbed into Sydney and to a lesser extent Melbourne through corporate takeovers. These urban centres operate at an intrastate level of networking within Australia’s federal administrative structure. Further dominance would be exerted from Sydney over nearby urban centres like Newcastle and Wollongong. These relationships of dominance and dependence occur on a global scale and these roles are even more pronounced when the country has a greater number of urban centres and world cities that surround a dominant world city. London acts as a centre of dependence for other major cities across the nation especially for financial transactions.
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The role of infrastructure To understand the role of the physical infrastructure in increasing the cycling levels, Hull and O’Holleran (2014) compare coherence, directness, attractiveness, safety and comfort of the bicycle network in six cities throughout the UK and the Netherlands. The research concludes that the design of bicycle infrastructure involves several spatial and behavioural factors; at a government level, policy must create the foundation for making motorised vehicles less necessary and convenient, while cycle promotion, at the local level, must integrate across policy levels, throughout spatial planning, transport, health and education, not just physical infrastructure. The study finds that good infrastructural design does encourage
The current research shows that the most likely long-term path for traffic congestion to grow at the same rate as population. But in the short term there will be moderating influences associated with fuel prices, unemployment, and recovery from the effects of the global financial crisis. Therefore enforcing the argument Australia is mostly unprepared for an exploding population influx and challenges. However with this data the government has accepted accordingly by implementing solutions to improve and adjust traffic congestion to the preparation of future population
In this essay, I will discuss the topic of urban public transportation and how it relates to the Church and Wellesley BIA. The nature of transportation in Toronto is a highly complex topic. As discussed in the article Transportation: The Bottleneck of Regional Competitiveness in Toronto, there are many concerns with transportation in regards to international transport, roads, highways, rails, bike lanes, buses etc. (Keil, Roger, Young, 2008). These transportation variables all have a greater economic, health, and environmental impact. The article goes on to describe that mobility in Toronto suffers because its management is uncoordinated, and there is a gap in regional interaction (Keil, Roger, Young 2008). The scope of this essay will be to
Since the invention of the automobile, we have been able to decrease transportation costs, travel vast distances and decrease travel times. We are able to facilitate relationships, foster trade between places, and find better jobs. However, due to the inaccurate pricing of the roads, driving cars has turned from an innovation to pure frustration. The problem is traffic congestion; the increased usage of cars has created slower speeds and longer travel times due to greater demand for the road than the road has to offer. Roughly 3.4 million Americans endure extreme commutes, in which the trip to work and back eats up at least three hours each day (Balaker, Staley 2006).
The development of urban transportation has not changed with the cities; cities have changed with transportation. This chapter offers an insight into the Past and the future of Urban transportation and is split up into a number of different sections. It includes a timeline of the different forms of transport innovations, starting from the earliest stages of urban transport, dating back to the omnibus (the first type of urban transportation) and working in a chronological order until eventually reaching the automobile. However, these changes in Urban transport did not happen for no reason. Different factors within society meant urban transport needed to evolve; points will be made on why society needed this evolution. In contrast I will observe the problems urban transport has caused in society as a result of its rapid progression. Taking account of both arguments for the evolution of urban transport, I will look at where it will go in the future.