ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that metropolitan institutional mechanisms for land-use planning provide the most appropriate “policy space” in which to articulate a complimentary, sustainable, public transport policy. The interaction of land use and transport has long been recognised to be a complex relationship. The fact that the global externality costs of motorised urban transport have become irrefutable worldwide should make it easier at the local level for externality concerns to be incorporated within a broader formula of deciding what is a successful public transport system. Any attempt to confine urban public transport performance appraisal to fiscal rather than welfare concerns as well is, together with the privatisation of public transport services without subsidy support for the urban poor or broader development concerns, nothing short of an ideological move. The call for more sustainable futures, cities, transport systems and lifestyles promises to put these visions on a collision course with that of the ideology of globalisation.
