Posted 23rd hJuly 2001

STEM Motorway Growth

Stop the Eastern Motorway group meeting on: Tuesday 31st July at 7.30pm, Jubilee Building, 545 Parnell Road, Parnell.

This is a vital meeting - the pressure is on from the roading lobby/Chamber of Commerce etc to push this one through - they have already achieved a review from Auckland City Council - ANOTHER costly study. There will also be a key speaker Dr Paul Mees.

"Paul is a lecturer in transport planning at the University of Melbourne and has recently published a book called 'A Very Public Solution: Transport in the dispersed city'. The book demonstrates convincingly that 'dispersed' American-style cities like those in Canada, Australia and NZ can have effective high-patronage public transport systems that compete with the car, so long as they provide an integrated high-frequency service.

Paul is also president of the Victorian Public Transport Users Association, and has been sued by Melbourne's private tollway operators. The PTUA also campaigns against the construction of freeways in favor of public transport..