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Australia can teach us a lot about civilised urban transport

Philip Bisatt, Taunton, Somerset TA1
13 June 2014
 

I have just returned from what will probably turn out to be a ‘once in a lifetime’ visit to Australia, much of it spent experiencing a variety of urban environments and transport systems. Having no real preconception of what I might find – and allowing for inevitably selective viewing over just a few weeks – it proved to be quite an interesting experience.

Although in many ways a country more wedded to the car than the UK, I was surprised at how well pedestrians and...

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