How to fund better transport

Thursday 13 November 2014

Labor-aligned think-tank, the McKell Institute, has argued to increase public transport fares, road user charges, and land taxes to pay for new train lines and roads, as well as to provide ongoing maintenance funding. From The SMH:

“You have got this massive backlog of heavy rail needs and, to this point, no one is talking about how are we going to pay for it,” said the executive director of the McKell Institute, Sam Crosby…

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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.