Commuting from some place
Property investors take note.
Commute times have blown out by about by 23 per cent since 2002, and as such commuters will naturally flock to live in areas where there are excellent transport connections for the major employment hubs.
The latest HILDA survey showed that by 2017 Sydneysiders spent some 71 minutes per day on average commuting, up from 60.6 minutes in 2002.
The malaise in Sydney has been partly arrested when measured as a mean daily average as more apartments have been built close to train stations.
But it's still a hellish commute for many suburban dwellers.
The same holds true for Australia's other 'more mature' capital city, Melbourne.
In Brisbane, there has been an apparently inexorable 45 per cent increase in mean daily commuting times since 2002, to an average of 66.7 minutes.
In fact, Brisbane now has the second longest mean daily commuting time after Sydney.
In fact, Brisbane now has the second longest mean daily commuting time after Sydney.
This has put pressure on land prices in Brisbane's inner ring (less so apartment prices, due to a recent building boom).
RMIT's Centre for Urban Research noted that infrastructure has failed to keep pace with population growth.
