The Climate Council says public transport should operate at least every 15 minutes between 7am and 7pm, and within 800 metres of every home in Australia's capital cities.
The Climate Council has released a report that suggests 1.5 million greater Brisbane residents do not have access to frequent, all-day public transport .
In its latest report released on Monday, the Climate Council found about 66 per cent of residents within the greater Brisbane area were not serviced by that standard of public transport. "So people hop into their cars just to go where they need to go, and usually it's within sort of 3 or 4 kilometres of where they are, but they're forced to do that."According to the analysis, the suburbs with the best availability of frequent, all-day public transport included Woolloongabba, West End, New Farm, Fortitude Valley, and East Brisbane.
"But we mustn't think about just a complete electric world where we've got cars going everywhere," he said.Transport investments "These upgrades will target Queensland communities experiencing significant population growth and will introduce bus services to many areas for the first time," they said.
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