[bikeqld] SE Qld transport coping with Peak Oil and Climate Change

[Michael Yeates]

Hi Mich and all ...

Tristan was one of the speakers so I asked him for his views.

He replied as follows ...
The BCC speaker did not have an actual 
presentation and simply repeated the Lord Mayor's 
priorities and said that BCC were focused on 
project delivery and made it clear they were not 
interested in coordinated transport planning or 
improving the mode share of public and active 
transport. The speaker from Queensland Transport 
was extremely non-committal on any major changes 
to Queensland Transport's approach and signalled 
a continuation of the current priorities for the next decade.
Peter Newman and Stuart McCarthy's presentations 
were good but were largely ignored by the three 
government speakers - none of them relayed any 
urgency about the issue or presented any 
strategies that would significantly reduce oil 
dependence in the transport system.
Tristan has also provided me with a copy of his 
pdf presentation material so anyone interested is welcome to contact me.

He also advised that a webpage of the event is being prepared.

MY ......................

At 01:03 AM 6/06/2009, mich rolling wrote:

>Did anyone go to this sustainable transport forum at the Irish Club on 17 May?
>
>Half a dozen professionals talking up how their 
>planning/designing/building is helping make 
>Brisbane transport able to function in the coming post-peak-oil era.
>
>If they were serious Barry Broe (Divisional 
>Manager Brisbane Infrastructure, Brisbane City 
>Council) would have announced the switch on date 
>for bus priority traffic light signalling in 
>Brisbane, currently nearly a decade late..
>
>http://qld.engineersaustralia.org.au/jetspeed/static/headlines/items/5441/20090519SSEE.pdf 
>
>
>South East Queensland’s Transport Systemin the 
>Peak Oil and Climate Change Era
>
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