traffic congestion

Sunday, July 05

Traffic Management Centre's data system up for sale

The State Government will seek to sell off the rights to its successful traffic management software AddInsight, saying its future use “extends far beyond” the administration’s core business.

Mandating car parks will only increase congestion - at best

Labor’s car parking policy is yet another example of Adelaide’s insistence on a completely counter-productive approach to managing traffic, argues David Washington.

Buses in the traffic queue on Morphett Street.

Adelaide's public transport users need a more powerful voice

It’s no wonder that public transport users are the bottom of the policy pile when the best-connected and most well-resourced transport lobby group in South Australia represents motorists.

Your views: on traffic policy, city bikeways, and a large novelty cheque

Today, readers comment on traffic congestion and infrastructure planning, get into gear about the city’s east-west bikeway, and offer their two cents about a Liberal candidate’s novelty cheque

Our traffic congestion 'problem' is overblown

Instead of spending ever more on roads, we can learn from overseas experience in using congestion as a ‘friend’ to manage the development of transport networks and of the city itself, writes Brian Feeney.

Council to consider Adelaide CBD congestion tax

The Adelaide City Council will consider the merits of a congestion tax to reduce traffic woes in the CBD – but the State Government says it’s “vehemently opposed” to the proposal.

Multi-billion-dollar road spending based on flawed model

Flawed traffic modelling is being used to justify billions of dollars of spending on roads that will destroy Australia’s urban fabric, argues Peter Newman.