My Grandma Owned a Car - Part 1 - futuremelbourne.com.au

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"My Grandma Owned a Car", is a documentary showcasing how leading transport and urban development thinkers envisage we might be living and working in a post- peak oil and climate change future.

Where will we live when petrol is too expensive for average income earners to buy? Will the electric car mean business as usual? Will our nature strips be filled with vegetable patches?
Will we just have to travel less? More working from home? Will we all be living in dense suburbs or apartments and relying on our feet, pedals and telecommuting to transport us?
Will our future grandchildren laugh at the absurdity of us having once owned a car?

Featuring
Dr Patrick Moriarty, Monash University/GAMUT
Prof. Chris Ryan, Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society
Dr Jan Scheurer, RMIT University
Prof Bill Russel and Prof Nicholas Low, GAMUT
Mr Ray Kinnear, Department of Infrastructure
Prof Dimity Reed AM, Mr Daniel Khong and Mr Martin Williams, VicUrban
Mr David Teller, Committee for Melbourne
Mr William McDougal, Sinclair Knight Merz
Ms Jess Fritze, Victorian Council of Social Services
Mr Bernie Carolan, Metlink
Mr Chris Loader, Bus Association of Victoria
Mr Kevin Luten, UrbanTrans
Ms Kerry McConnell, VicRoads
Cr Janet Rice, Metropolitan Transport Forum, City of Maribyrnong

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[mickeymoo26]

Didn't they like extend the urban boundary around Melbourne? So people can develop further and further out. Good urban planning there... : I

[mtagvideos]

great work

[fernald10]

An interesting discussion of a vital topic. Transport makes up about 50 per cent of household greenhouse gas emissions, way above lighting, heating and cooking.

[aliceme]

i checked out the future melbourne wiki mentioned in the video description and was surprised to find that its basically the next future plan for melbourne that's live for editing!

Anyone can edit it, how bizarre and wonderful!

[t0asty2]

it's already getting too expensive to run a car here in australia...