Even better....add a superfast train that could carry cargo ie a car and then have a quick load and unload system so people could have their car transported with them. Who would not use it!!? Getting all that traffic off the roads and onto tracks for long hauls makes perfect sense.

Cheers, Dale

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"The majority of license owners don't drive cabs. They uses migrants from the sub-continent to do the driving. From the earnings of a cab, 50% goes to the driver and 50% to the cab (license) owner."

Where do you get your statistics? As far as I know, as a cab driver for 20 years, is that, while the majority of drivers are not licenced operators, there are plenty of owners who do drive, even if it is only a few shifts a week. The standard method of dividing the income (in NSW at least) is that the driver pays the operator an industry-determined pay-in per shift and the rest, after costs of fuel, tolls, uniforms, etc., is his income, on which he pays tax and GST. This applies to all regardless of the place of origin of the driver or the licencee.
The high cost of the operator's licence is designed to ensure that the operator is one who takes his responsibilities seriously, as they are very heavy responsibilities. They include, for example, regular maintenance to ensure that the vehicles are in a roadworthy condition, ensuring that his drivers are capable and properly qualified, maintaining a roster of drivers to work every shift, being available 24 hours a day in case of a breakdown or accident, arranging temporary replacements for drivers off sick or on leave, and all the book-keeping and records required by law. Without that big investment in the licence many operators would be tempted to cut corners and endanger the lives of drivers, customers or the public.

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While food miles contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, they are not the most important contributor from food production. In Australia, there are more emissions from cattle than there are from passenger cars. That does not take into account the emissions from reduced carbon in soil and biomass caused by overgrazing. It has been estimated that hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide could be sequestered by destocking cattle from rangelands.

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