Plan to axe cars from city centre ( The Age / Liz Minchin )

From the article: “CARS will be driven out of the city in favour of public transport and bicycles under a radical new council strategy that abandons plans for a multibillion-dollar cross-city tunnel and suggests slashing speed limits in the CBD.”

The proposal includes reducing the city speed limit from 50 to 40km/hr, introducing tram/bus only lanes, and offering discounted public transport tickets to CBD shoppers. The plan really needs the assistance of the state government to improve public transport to the city, especially the train network. This seems like a good idea, but I can’t see much of it being implemented in the short to medium term.