[Peakoil] Molonglo residents moving in - prepare for decades of road congestion

Sat Jun 16 02:16:22 UTC 2012

ACT Light Rail on Molonglo:

http://www.actlightrail.info/2012/06/molonglo-residents-moving-in-prepare.html

Last week the Canberra Times carried a story on residents preparing to
move into the new residential developments in Molonglo. I think It is
important to note that there is no adequate public transport
infrastructure ready to cater for these residents. ACTION Buses have
released 'network 2012' and no Molonglo routes are mentioned. The 'Network
2012 route map' does not even show Molonglo. A massive public transport
failure.

This ACT Government planning failure dooms Molonglo residents to having to
use cars to travel around Canberra. It means that a family MUST have two
cars or be socially isolated. it means that commuters have no choice but
to drive to work.

Affordable housing is not so affordable when the costs of an extra car are
added to the family budget. The NRMA estimate this extra cost to be a
minimum of ten thousand dollars a year.

ACT Light Rail made a submission in 2007 recommending that prior to
residents moving in, that  light rail be built between Molonglo and Civic,
or Molonglo, Weston Creek, Woden and Civic. This would ensure that the
decades of lost productivity, road congestion and bickering over access
would not be repeated.

It of course, did not occur. The ACT Government are road focussed and the
NCA really have no power over such a decision.