Not to say that the petrol prices will go down by April but would be a great initiative at the very least.
Posted by them4v3r1ck
Not to say that the petrol prices will go down by April but would be a great initiative at the very least.
Posted by them4v3r1ck
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Nah mate, we can’t even stop indexing it each year, let alone 50c. For free? Not in my dreams.
But then people wouldn’t use toll roads and the masters would be upset.
Might have something to do with the government has to face the electors later this year and they are as popular as a turd in a swimming pool.
You want all social media to be filled with “well I cant take public transport, where’s my benefit” whinging? Because the bots will be busy
Great idea. I wonder if there will be other Covid like actions if this continues for months.
Maybe we start a 4 day work week?
And working from home.
Minimum of X number of people in cars for X type of travel?
So long as we don’t have to have a stick rammed and twisted up our noses by an aggressive healthcare worker at the petrol station.
It’s a lot of pressure to resist with just under a year to the next NSW state election.
I reckon there’s a chance, and Minns spends his election campaign talking about and the ANZAC holiday thing, to try and keep the conversation off everything else
The free transport for April is great and all, but what happens after April?……is the fuel and war magically going to stop in 4 weeks?
I would rather they do not this because then we would see perhaps too much public transport demand, and sometimes during the rush hour it’s already at capacity
I also think there are already a lot of people who do not pay in Victoria! Either they’re children or are fare evaders so I think it’s not as detrimental from a revenue perspective as it would be here
Chris Minns is too busy thinking how he can ban the phrase “from the river to the sea” or fight against public service worker rights to consider anything else.
For me it’s not so much the cost that stops me using public transport, it’s the poor frequency and unreliability. Especially on weekends.
If they could make it more convenient with increased services, that would incentivise me to use it more and drive less.
Some of our suburbs are so spread out, that there’s no meaningful access to the train system.
Legalising e-scooters (which the NSW government announced they were working on almost a year ago) would boost public transport uptake and also reduce our reliance on foreign fossil fuels by replacing cars for short trips and aiding access to public transport for longer trips
I’m not really understanding why people think we should be getting this. Public transport is already heavily subsidised by the government. Why is there an expectation now for the government to fully subsidise it because fuel is becoming more expensive? If fuel is becoming too expensive for people to get to work, and public transport is less expensive, isn’t public transport the less expensive option for them regardless of how much it’s being subsidised?