Comments on: The Green Fields of Clover

By: virginia sullivan

virginia sullivan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:37:21 +0000

I think the major issue is for public transport to be improved, well in Perth anyway. I live about 5 kms from where I work. Catching a bus would take forever, but I can drive there in 10 minutes. Public transport should be just that, public and should not be privatised and then profit would not be the driving force. People should be given a huge discount if they are traveling to and from work, so salary sacrifice would be perfect. The use of cars is an issue that will have to be addressed, but will probably be in the too hard basket for quite sometime yet.

By: HelenLR

HelenLR — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:23:42 +0000

Totally in favour of packaging bikes and public transport (PT). I am unable to package my car as I do too few kilometres in the year due to my cycling and PT habits. Let me know where to sign up!

By: Jeanette Randall

Jeanette Randall — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:48:58 +0000

I would support Salary Packaging public transport costs, how would encouraging car pooling?

By: elizabeth emin

elizabeth emin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:27:46 +0000

I think travel costs to & from work should also be packaged especially for country workers where there is no public transport

By: I.M. Sexay

I.M. Sexay — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:03:28 +0000

From my observations, the public transport sector has long been a (expensive) taxpayer sponsored way of keeping unemployment down. Have you noticed the number of people who spend their days doing nothing at the train station / ferry terminal?

I digress.
Allowing the salary sacrifice of public transport will do (at least) three positive things:

1. Make the cost of public transport affordable (bad enough its inefficient, let alone expensive)
2. Encourages people to leave their gas guzzlers at home
3. Helps support employment for the lazy and unambitious in the transport sector.

We all win!