Cairns demands sustainable transport
Over the weekend members of the Cairns Action for Sustainable Transport (CAST), CAFNEC and the Greens organised a section of the Cairns Festival calling for sustainable transport for one of Queensland’s fastest growing cities. Well done to those campaigners!
For too long transport planners have forced regional city commuters to depend on outmoded and competely inadequate (usually privately-operated) public transport or else use their cars.
Cities like Cairns (and Townville, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast) are ideal for the sort of light rail project that is finally coming to the Gold Coast.
The Cairns campaigners also called for the State Government to reject any notions of privatising any areas of public transport.
