My intelligent, urban designer friend from Melbourne, recommended this book Transport For Suburbia - Beyond the Automobile Age, by Paul Mees, as it compares and discusses suburban transport systems in a variety of international cities (including Canberra).
The Canberra plan had one overriding objective, to eliminate traffic congestion. This was to be achieved by restricting employment in the city and centre and providing an extensive network of freeways. Canberra was laid out as a Y-shaped ‘linear city’ ... and one intended to allow a ‘balanced’ transport system incorporating a bus rapid transit connection between major centres. The proposed busway was never built, but most of the freeways were, and Canberra has become a paradigm of autopia, albeit one with an urban form that would make it feasible to retro-fit a public transport system. (Mees, 2010, Page 44).
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