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Congestion To Cost $53 Billion By 2031, Sydney Choking: Study

The first report by Infrastructure Australia, a body newly established by the Federal Government, shows Australia faces a crippling loss in productivity due to congestion based on current projections. In 2011, congestion on Australian roads cost t


The first report by Infrastructure Australia, a body newly established by the Federal Government, shows Australia faces a crippling loss in productivity due to congestion based on current projections.

In 2011, congestion on Australian roads cost the economy $13.74 billion in lost productivity, at a time when the population was 22.3 million.

With an estimated population of 30.5 million in 2031, the report predicts lost productivity due to congestion will cost a staggering $53 billion.

The report identified the top-ten congestion hot-spots around Australia from 2011, and it will surprise few to learn that seven of them are in Sydney with one each in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne.

Sydney’s seven worst roads for congestion all appear in the top-eight on the list, with Perth’s Mitchell Freeway corridor breaking up the list in fourth place.

Each congested road has been rated for lost productivity based on a ‘cost by lane kilometre’ in 2011, and Sydney’s notoriously heavy Pennant Hills Road tops the list at $3.53 million.

A section of the Metroad A3 taking in King Georges Road between the Princes Highway and the M4 is next on $2.28 million, followed by Chatswood to Narraweena via Warringah Road at $2.18 million.

Other hot-spots in New South Wales included Victoria Road, Parramatta Road, almost the entire length of the Metroad A6 and the remaining length of the A3.

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