How do we unclog our city?
Published 1 year, 7 months ago in Where I Live. 
Government research estimates gridlock is costing Melbourne businesses $2.7 billion a year. This increases the cost of everything to the consumer, especially food.
What do you think we can do to cut congestion in Melbourne?
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Decentralise. Make it economicaly imperative to relocate to outer regional areas. Compensate for the extra cost of transproting etc. This liability will be offset by the savings in traffic control, travel times, pollution, parking, road rage, you name it.
The other obvious soloution, is one predicated on hindsight. If the so- called experts planned for 30 years ahead, there would be so many savings.
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Two things are needed:
Massive , and I really mean massive, investment in public transport. I visited Mernda today where hundreds of new homes are being build. It was immediately obivious it will be another Rowville; a huge residential development with no thought given to the infrastructure that will be needed to sustain it.
Melbourne needs cheap, clean and frequent trains, running either underground or overhead as a monorail.
Secondly, once the first is in place, a city centre congestion charge in order to persuade commuters to use public transport.
Bracks has a billion dollar budget surplus, why doesn’t he use it ?
well spoken hanna hsgranpa but there battle cry is i will look into that blind fools this bracks goverment could not track a elephant in snow even if he was swinging a ten foot chain this is a old joke my mum would say about any goverment cheers big fella
Ahhhh! You sweet child. There was some research done a few years ago, I was a young fellow then like Dennis the menace. I was busy with a bottle of whine - was a very good year. The study revealed that the timing of the traffic lights played a big part in the problem; it caused a doppler wave effect i.e. when the lights changed, the first car moved off but slowly! Not straight away. Then the next car moved off and the next and so on. By the time the last car began moving off the first car was now slowing down to stop at the next set of traffic lights hence the doppler wave effect. Errr come to think of it, we do have many traffic lights; always stopping and starting, hardly get a good long run.
I wish I had the solution but I must walk away in shame (sigh)- but before I do! Let me say this; I wonder if the narrow exit at the end of our massive, multi-lain freeways are having a bottleneck effect on the traffic. Has this helped in anyway or did I get the bull by the tail
There are simple ways to unclog the city …
More tunnels …
More cyclists …
More trains …
But, EastLink will make a big difference to traffic flow and this highly populated corridor will chase the face of Melbourne. Its high-volume traffic is expected to have a favourable impact on inner-city traffic flow. Let’s wait until 2008.