Mass immigration continues to squeeze the life out of Sydney, with 70% of the city experiencing a blowout in commute times over the past five years:
People living in 70 per cent of Sydney suburbs have experienced a blowout in commute times over the past five years despite billions of dollars being spent on roads and transport.
A belt of suburbs extending from the city’s west to its south and pockets in the northern suburbs experienced the biggest spike in commute times…
Mathew Hounsell, a researcher at the University of Technology’s Institute for Sustainable Futures, said commute times could be rising because growing population density in many areas is putting additional pressure on road and transport networks.
“The road system in Sydney has become saturated and more investment in needed in heavy rail and metro alternatives,” he said…
Commute times increased in 30 of the 44 statistical areas that Sydney suburbs were divided into for the survey and remained the same in one (Canterbury)…
Whocoulddanode. Sydney’s population soared by nearly 500,000 in the five years to 2018, driven almost entirely by mass immigration:
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Liveability will obviously continue to deteriorate as Sydney’s population balloons from mass immigration:
According to Infrastructure Australia’s projections, traffic congestion and all other indicators of liveability will worsen under all development scenarios as Sydney’s population swells to a projected 7.4 million people by 2046 (let alone to 9.7 million by 2066, as projected above by the ABS):
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.
