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  Urban planning has been based on an assumption of indefinite cheap petrol. Urban planning needs to be re-considered from the ground up in light of Peak Oil.
  
  If people live near where they want to be -- for work, school, shopping, church and friends -- there is less need for them to travel. If people have the land and the skills and the willingness, they can grow their own food, reducing the need for transport (of food) and travel (for shopping). If neighbourhoods become communities, there can be exchange of food, clothing, skills, services, further reducing dependence on oil (VTPI)
  
- **Recommendation: municipal, state and national governments take into account the likelihood of rising transport and raw material costs in all consideration of the siting of new suburbs, the approval of industrial, retail and office development, infrastructure work, the redevelopment of existing towns, suburbs and CBDs. The recommended method of doing this is to (a) enlarge the scope of environmental impact statements to include the impact of expected energy costs and supply instabilities, (b) make such enlarged environmental impact statements available in full to the public, (c) require that the approval of the proposed works formally address the environmental impact statement in a pubicly accessible response.** 
+ **Recommendation: municipal, state and national governments take into account the likelihood of rising transport and raw material costs in all consideration of the siting of new suburbs, the approval of industrial, retail and office development, infrastructure work, the redevelopment of existing towns, suburbs and CBDs. The recommended method of doing this is to (a) enlarge the scope of environmental impact statements to include the impact of expected energy costs and supply instabilities, (b) make such enlarged environmental impact statements available in full to the public, (c) require that the approval of the proposed works formally address the environmental impact statement in a publicly accessible response.** 
  
  ==== Rail ====
  Oil prices have risen 45% over the past 20 months, which is already resulting in increased public transport patronage, with 6% increase in Perth and a 8.5% increase in Melbourne, and a 15% increase in adult passengers in Canberra, as people economise on their travel. 
  



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