Experts say going back to the normal gridlock on city transport networks in a post-coronavirus world is not only unappealing — it's unnecessary.
"And that means we'll get some extra flexibility for the for the workforce to at least spend some of the time working from home, and not adding to that commuting burden.""There will be a lot of adaptations that people make that will persist, and that will enable us to try things out in a different way in the future," she said.
"We spoke to people before this pandemic, and about one in four of them said they could change the time of day that they travel.Under Infrastructure Victoria's plan, all up-front road charges, like car registration and stamp duty, would be abolished.What the experts are saying about coronavirus:On public transport, pricing would vary according to the type of transport used and the time of day travelled.
"What transport network pricing will do is it give us all good incentive to think — Do I really need to be making that trip now? Do I really need to drive? Can I do the trip later on?" he said.
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