Mark Wild says the pandemic has temporarily disrupted the business case for mass transit projects, but governments will rue the day they abandon them. | By Chip Le Grand SpringSt
He agrees the pandemic has temporarily disrupted the economic model of mass transit projects traditionally justified by reducing journey times and creating new trips.
“If you look at London, Paris and New York, there has definitely been a shift in travel patterns that I think will probably be relatively permanent,” says the former chief executive of Crossrail and managing director of the London Underground. “There is more leisure travel and Saturdays and Sundays and Mondays and Fridays are less congested than they were.
In Melbourne, medium-term passenger figures can be interpreted in two ways. Data provided by Victoria’s Department of Transport shows that in the 10 years between 2009-10 and 2018-19, the total number of passengers on metro trains, trams and buses increased from 497 million per year to 570 million. This represents healthy growth of 14 per cent.However, this growth was achieved over a decade where the population of Greater Melbourne boomed by 26 per cent.
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