Should Australia invest in mass public transit?
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Business Spectator’s Rob Burgess has written a spirited post slamming the Abbott Government’s roads fetish and advocating a massive lift in public transport investment:
In the past decade there has been a shift back to public transport as sprawling Australian cities make commuting by car more expensive — both in terms of fuel, time spent battling congestion, and skyrocketing parking costs…
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.