YOUR VIEWS Fuel crackdown
Real-time pricing apps for fuel will work well in urban centres, not so much for rural communities. If we want to bring lasting change, then I suggest a boycott of a fuel brand. When they lower their price, move on to the next one. They are the ones who say volume of sales dictates price, so let’s get together and make it happen. Philip Ryan, Latrobe
Electric bus feedback
The RACT’s electric bus is a typical, modern, unnecessarily complicated, high-tech answer to a simple old problem: moving people around. Whilst it may ultimately be less profitable for bus owners to employ a human driver, the human-operated bus is quite simple. All it needs is for our Metro to recognise that we need a more user-friendly service, so it no longer takes an hour or more to travel between Hobart’s assorted mini-cities using perhaps two or three interchanges. In addition, the Metro would do well not to dismiss the idea that mobility and flexibility are keys to competition with the private traffic-congestor, the car. Given modern GPS and communications technology (such as the
telephone, radio, wi-fi and computer), buses no longer need to run on fixed routes and can be directed to pick up passengers as they need pick-ups. Such a system would be operated using either 12-seater mini-buses or the larger 20-seater buses, leaving our massive and cumbersome larger buses to operate as an expressway service between major centres. As for electrically driven buses – no problem. They have been around for over a 100 years, either as trams or trolley buses. But I would trust a human to resolve better and more quickly the instantaneous ethical conundrums involved when it comes to accidents and preserving life than an automated driverless bus. Whilst it is good to see the RACT finally lobbying for better public transport, the best solutions are the simplest and we already have perfectly adequate technology to improve Hobart’s public transport so that it becomes useful. RH Findlay, Lindisfarne
Kingston traffic
Due to future developments at Huntingfield, Kingston and the very busy roundabout outside of it, it would make sense to ease this load by putting in a slip-road for residents
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