Departure 4: GRAEME DAVISON & WIM HAFKAMP
GRAEME DAVISON is a Melbourne historian and author of ‘Car Wars: How The Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered our Cities’.
WIM HAFKAMP is an environmental economist from University of Rotterdam currently researching transport, environment, infrastructure and urban development.
Listen:
24 Nov 2006
It's a curious start to an on-tram dialogue about transportation when the W-11 TRAM is postponed 20 minutes by a stalled tram up ahead. Hafkamp and Davison move through issues of how the division of responsibilities for different roads in Melbourne inhibits the coordinated prioritisation of tram and bus services; of how the connectivity of transport services - including increased flexible bus services - is of higher priority than extensions to light rail infrastructure. Why is it that people are more content to spend time waiting in traffic-stalled cars than waiting in or for public transport services?
Discussion
I loved the way I was just tuning in and out of these guys conversation... it was just like overhearing a conversation on a tram or bus or plane...and what they talked about led me and my friend into a conversation about the fact that Hobart barely has a public transport system!... in that way Melbourne is very lucky...