TRANSPORT: “Life in suburbs drives emissions higher”

The Australian
19 September 2008

WORKING families living on the edges of Australia’s urban sprawl are generating up to 10 times more greenhouse emissions in their cars than those from the inner city, according to new research.

The study by Parsons Brinkerhoff and Curtin University shows the same outer suburbs that put Kevin Rudd into power are increasingly expensive to build and service, driving worseningeconomic, environmental and social costs.

With transport accounting for around half of an average Australian household’s greenhouse footprint, inner city residents could be generating just half the emissions of those living out in the mortgage belt…

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