‘There’s no way to get home’: the public transport deserts on Brisbane’s northern fringe – The Guardian Australia

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In the suburbs between city and country, the motor vehicle has always ruled.

In Caboolture, a large peri-urban centre on Brisbane’s northern fringe, quarter-acre blocks are connected with a sprawling network of black bitumen roads to ferry families to work, school, the shops and back. It’s a hostile environment for pedestrians and cyclists.

“We’ve had a few near misses now,” says the Caboolture mother Laura Sheather. “We don’t need a child dying because we pushed our…

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