The time it takes Australian workers to get to work is increasing. What do experts think will help improve them?
What's next?The average Australia n worker spends more than an hour a day stuck in rush-hour traffic, fighting for a seat on the bus or trying to zone out on the train.
"One of the last things to go in are things like bus stops. So in general, if you're moving to a new area, you are a car user," he said.He added that due to the heavy reliance on car usage and a lack of public transport options in some of these newly built outer suburbs, delays in getting to work were inevitable.
"In cities that are doing sort of a large upgrade with the Sydney Metro, even Melbourne, for example, the commuter time has increased because they're doing a lot of maintenance works and upgrades," he said.How does Australia compare to other parts of the world?In Europe, more than 60 per cent of workers in the EU travelled less than half an hour from work to home.
"In smaller cities and countries, they have much more sort of planning schemes, which means they heavily monitor due to lack of available land," he said. He believes a bigger problem for increased commuter times, especially in some of the larger capital cities, is unchecked growth in some outer-suburban communities.
Dr Both explained there were several things in play, including increased frequency of services and higher density."One of the big barriers for people using the transit system is inflexibility. You quickly become beholden to the schedule of the public transit," he said.
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