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Growth pains and gridlock come to Hobart, and building more roads is not the best way out

  • Written by Emma Pharo, Senior Lecturer, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania
The morning traffic builds up on the Tasman Highway at Montagu Bay. Congestion has become a hot issue for Hobart residents.Wiki ian/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Hobart is a city with growing pains. As Australia’s second-oldest city, it might be likened to an octogenarian suddenly experiencing a teenage “growth spurt”. Growth is occurring...

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