Sydney traffic grinds to congestion halt as car volumes surge

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Sydney has once again been ranked the most congested city in Australia, with travel speeds during the morning peak continuing to slow to a crawl. From The SMH:

The study, commissioned by the Australian Automobile Association, found that Sydney motorists travelled at the second lowest average speed (59.6km/h) out of all capital cities in 2018, 1.4 per cent slower than in 2013, and 6km/h below the national average…

The Road Congestion in Australia report was based on GPS data from tens of thousands of vehicles nationwide and concluded that the underlying infrastructure and road quality was deficient…

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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.