Public transport – next to housing and healthcare – has become a casualty to rapid population expansion.
When we had three million (in 1990) it was a breeze; at four million (2000), jams were starting to show on roads, in public housing and hospitals and other facilities.
But with five million currently, some things are bursting at the seams.
“I think it will take another five to 10 years to balance supply and demand in facilities like transport and housing to cope with the expansion,” said an economist friend. Full story
