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June Forum Wednesday 16 June
Planning for public transport and the implications for Canberra
Special Member Fourm held in conjunction with The Greens
Special guest speaker: Paul Mees from Melbourne
When: Wednesday 16 June
Time: 5:30 for a 6pm start
Where: Legislative Assembly
Topic: Planning for public transport and the implications for Canberra
Light refreshments will be provided.
Paul Mees teaches and researches in the areas of transport planning and statutory planning. Before starting at RMIT in 2008, he taught urban planning at the University of Melbourne for 10 years, and before that was a Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Urban Research Program. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked as a lawyer. Paul is one of Australia’s leading experts on urban public transport, and his work is internationally influential: for example, it provided the basis for the European Union’s 2005 HiTrans project on improving public transport in medium-sized cities and towns. He has recently released a book: Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age
How do we get people out of their cars in a dispersed city like Canberra? What should we be telling the planners in order to facilitate this?
At this forum Paul will be discussing successful and unsuccessful urban public transport planning in Australia. He will explore the option of planning for inner city residential densification to encourage people to walk and cycle as well as discuss alternative options to buses in the ACT, including the option of light rail.
Come along for what is sure to be a robust and entertaining discussion as well as a useful insight into what Canberra should be doing to create a better public transport system.
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