Liverpool. High use of car for work

The Public Transport Independent Inquiry meeting in Casula heard 62 per cent of Liverpool residents use the car to get to work - 9 per cent more than the Sydney metropolitan average - and the number is increasing rapidly. Sixty per cent of the Liverpool population daily leaves the LGA for work and a very high proportion travel to work in Western Sydney suburbs whicgh are poorly serviced by public transport. The NSW Government has shelved the $1.36 billion south-west rail link but families continue to move into new housing estates in Edmondson Park, Austral, Middleton Grange and Leppington. ''The south-west rail link isn't completely off the agenda - they're still buying land in the proposed corridor for it. But we need them to actually put down a deadline for when they are actually going to build the thing.'' Liverpool Mayor, Wendy Waller, told the Sydney Morning Herald

Region. Public meetings on transport

The Independent Public Inquiry, which has been established to create a long-term public integrated transport plan for Sydney, over the next 30 years, will hold a number of meetings in Greater Western Sydney, supported by The Sydney Morning Herald. Each meeting will focus on the issues in the local region or strategic corridor. The meetings will be held from 6.30pm-8.30pm at the following venues: North-West Sydney, Tuesday, September 15, Castle Grand, Castle Hill; South-West Sydney, Tuesday, September 22, Casual Powerhouse; Western Sydney corridor, Thursday, September 24, Riverside Theatre, Parramatta.