{"id":231,"date":"2018-10-26T07:34:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=231"},"modified":"2018-10-26T07:34:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:34:50","slug":"infrastructure-australia-report-highlights-massive-under-investment-in-public-transport-by-both-major-parties-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/10\/26\/infrastructure-australia-report-highlights-massive-under-investment-in-public-transport-by-both-major-parties-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure Australia report highlights massive under-investment in public transport by both major parties: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Residents in outer suburbs have been appalling neglected by successive governments failing to properly invest in public transport, say the Greens, following the publication of Infrastructure Australia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infrastructureaustralia.gov.au\/policy-publications\/publications\/files\/outer-urban-public-transport-highres.pdf\">Outer Urban Public Transport<\/a>\u00a0report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2018This report shows just how successive Liberal and Labor governments around the country have failed to properly plan transport solutions for people in outer suburban areas, who are stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic jams for several hours a day,\u2019 said Senator Janet Rice, Australian Greens transport spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2018People are crying out for accessible, reliable and affordable public transport. Instead we have governments throwing money into expensive, polluting toll roads that do nothing to solve congestion and mean that people living in the outer suburbs have no other option but to drive.\u2019<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2018As our cities grow, we have to give people the choice of high quality, fully integrated public transport &#8211; trains, trams and buses. That\u2019s the only way we will solve our transport problems.\u2019<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2018We have to make sure public transport is planned properly. It\u2019s not just a matter of announcing big flashy projects. We need comprehensive integrated transport plans across the country that prioritise public transport, and walking and cycling.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in outer suburbs have been appalling neglected by successive governments failing to properly invest in public transport, say the Greens, following the publication of Infrastructure Australia\u2019s\u00a0Outer Urban Public Transport\u00a0report. \u2018This report shows just how successive Liberal and Labor governments around the country have failed to properly plan transport solutions for people in outer suburban &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/10\/26\/infrastructure-australia-report-highlights-massive-under-investment-in-public-transport-by-both-major-parties-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Infrastructure Australia report highlights massive under-investment in public transport by both major parties: Greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}