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"Every vehicle is fitted with a tracking device and higher charges would be levied on drivers who drove further at peak times and in designated city areas," the report said.
Freight will go on trains instead of trucks, and big vehicles that damage roads will be charged more to drive.
Cars with passengers would be given priority on the roads, and a "supertrain" would link cities along the eastern seaboard.
Instead of mega-cities such as Sydney's "city of cities" approach, with populations of five million-plus, new cities would be created in affordable regional areas.
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Originally posted by q_ball
So again the systematic break up of our infrastructure, and then a tracking device placed on all cars to help the environment and over congestion. This country runs on trucks, to make trains the main way to distribute products could see hundreds of thousands of people out of work. You can set up new smaller CBD's with out killing so many industries in a bid to stay 'green'. This whole green fad has to be one of the biggest scams facing the west.
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