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The future of Sydney four fundamental changes for a growing city

Sydney's, population is moving beyond 4 million people. The volume of freight moving across and within the metropolitan area is growing and fringe areas are being redeveloped to accommodate expanding residential and employment areas. Many of the indicators, including energy consumption, car ownership rates, mode of travel, size of the urban footprint, growth in VKTs, per capita congestion costs and the like suggest that Australia's capital cities, particularly Sydney are developing unsustainably. This paper considers a number of short term initiatives that, if actioned, could assist in moving towards a more sustainable future for Sydney and Australia's other capital cities. The initiatives are addressed under the four key areas of: » Congestion » Infrastructure and services funding » Administration and assessment » Preparing for a post oil age