Decades of under-investment in transport links on Melbourne's fringe have had serious health impacts – and more than $150 billion is needed to address the problem.
Dr Watson said he regularly treated patients with preventable illnesses, such as diabetes, and has recommended they exercise regularly. But their time outside of work, he said, was generally spent on commuting long distances – or sitting idly in traffic.“That’s two hours a day in a car that would [allow them to do] all of that. The very people who don’t need any more stress in their lives, have the problems of a lack of infrastructure compounding their stress.
The study finds the pain of this under-investment has largely been borne by residents in the city's six fastest growing outer Melbourne council areas – Cardinia, Casey, Hume, Melton, Whittlesea and Wyndham – where incomes went backwards relative to the rest of the state between 1992 and 2017. for both Labor and Coalition state governments. Also behind the work, completed with funding from the Municipal Association of Victoria, was Melbourne University's Janet Stanley and economist Peter Brain from the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research.
Bullshit, poor decisions and life choices are making people sick.
Maybe they should all jog in to work?
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The transport is not their only problem. I happened to be in Clyde North yesterday. Basic infrastructure, no parks, just a vast space of land packed with newly built houses. I know that majority of occupants there are immigrants. It is as far from integration as possibly can.
Been away from the Melbourne commute for just over 2 years, and coming back I've noticed just how bad it actually has gotten. Think I'll just continue to work from home...thanks anyway.
Now Denial Andrews can be blamed for heart diseases & obesity of Mel outer suburbs ppl.
‘Correlation’ is not Causation. Over-extrapolating studies and data-sets to push an agenda is not good journalism. This article over-reaches in that regard.