Take STEPS - Sustainable Transport, Energy and Planning Solutions
This website provides space to several community groups and ideas: CAST - Cairns Action for Sustainable Transport A group of people, formed in 2008, is concerned about the present over-reliance on car transport and the governments lack of foresight of impending peak oil and climate change. We see that Cairns is uniquely positioned to have a sustainable and effective rail transport system by using existing rail infrastructure combined with (electric) shuttle buses. EmPower A group of people which formed in 2006 to raise awareness for Climate Change and that the Cairns region is ideally suited to implement and showcase solutions to the biggest problem facing humanity organised several events including a large exhibition showing available solutions. Kuranda Range Road Defenders The trucking lobby has pushed for widening of the scenic Kuranda Range road since the nineties. Since the costs were not justifiable by their fuel savings, a plan was created to turn Myola, a picturesque part of Kuranda into the next Cairns suburb. the extra thousands of residents would need a four-lane-highway to Cairns, which was duly planned for. Many locals did not want to loose one of the most scenic drives in the world and mounted a successful challenge which ended in the state government abandoning their plans.
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