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Mass transportation and last mile transport from there to the end point!
If we updated the train network, subsidised electric bikes (along with more sensible regulation about speeds and wattages, 250 isn't enough to get peek hills without sweating - which sounds vain but is important for people replacing a car) and provided safe places to park them all around (lockers etc) I earnestly believe a lot of people would find they amount of times they earnestly need to drive its slashed considerably!
A solid bike or scooter is effectively a low impact range extender for the rest of our infrastructure - which means more people can access it more easily too!
I can only speak for myself but doing the same thing, I'm only really driving twice a week now to handle a ~80km round work commute. It's great - and I'm going out a lot more because I'm not worried about fuel or parking.
I commute into Brisbane from GC. My commute is amazingly easy. Drive 10 minutes to the train, park up, train and walk to work in the city. 10 minute difference compared to driving, which is negligible if you include the walk from the car park @ Roma or Turbot to work.
I constantly think about how when down in GC I'm driving around this massive 4 door sedan when I could be in something way smaller and lighter at least, or better yet something that doesn't run on fuel. The most I'm usually carrying is one bag.
If public transport actually worked for the places I need to go, or I could run a real ebike to get up the hills of Nerang area mountains I'd be golden.
Bus retooling too - there's no reason why a lot of coverage buses need to continue into the CBD, gimping frequencies and contributing to issues like inner bus congestion