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At wet LRV at Alinga Street

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@danielbowen @Transportist reminds me of the (ACT) National Capital Development Commission’s 1975 Annual Report.

I grew up in deep suburban Canberra; discovering this report blew my mind. In 1985 Canberra's per capita car usage rate was lower than any other Aussie city due to Swiss-style timed bus transfers and the below road policies.

A quote from a peer reviewed paper by the late Dr Paul Mees:

> The new policy, which is dated July 1974 and endorsed by the NCDC and Department of the Capital Territory, states that new roads will be designed to ‘provide a high level-of-service for off-peak freight and private car usage’. By contrast, ‘[u]nneccessary use of the private car for commuting purposes will be discouraged. Any shortfall in peak-period road capacity or parking space will be offset by the provision of improved public transport’. Improved public transport will be supplemented by a network of bike paths. Finally, the policy accepts to need for ongoing public transport operating subsidies (NCDC, 1975, p. 65).

> Usage rates grew rapidly in the following decade in all cities except Canberra, and by 1985 Canberra’s usage rates were lower than any of the other cities (Newman & Kenworthy, 1991, p. 33).

At some point I want to write a blog post about this - do you have any thoughts on this paper?

https://australasiantransportresearchforum.org.au/fifty-years-of-public-transport-planning-in-canberra/

https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/esploro/outputs/9921859491901341

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I got some useful information from a somewhat cranky bus driver here in #Canberra this afternoon: Commonwealth Ave, near the roadworks where London Circuit is, will be reduced to one lane each way. As a result of this, #TransportCanberra has increased the run times of the R2 and R4 buses by 20 minutes.

This is already causing timing issues, since the extra lane closures haven't happened yet, and I am clearly going to have to take a giant metaphorical chill pill about bus travel from now on.

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We had New Driver again today. And this time, he was on time. (I started work 15 minutes late yesterday. But that's okay - my hours are flexible.). Apart from a "no, the other right" incident at the traffic lights, he's doing well #transportcanberra

I spotted #transportcanberra installing a water tank shaped bus shelter at the bus stop two down from mine on my way home this evening, and I felt so relieved I almost wanted to cry! For a while, it looked like they were going to remove them all, which would have been a crying shame, because those #busshelters are the best! They keep the weather off, and their seats are plastic, so they don't get freezing cold in winter.

Loved the @_CMAG_@twitter.com exhibition of Trevor Dickinson's beautiful bus shelters of Canberra. Wonderful stuff! 🚏✨ #transportcanberra