Perth is Full

Since the school and university holidays ended in February, Perth's freeways have been clogged for hours in the morning and the evening with commuters. It can take two hours to travel 20km. Perth's trains are full, bulging with passengers. Perth's buses are overcrowded. It's becoming untenable spending so long on the roads in order to reach work, especially when you don't really want to get to work anyway.

My shortcut caused slight irritation.

Here are my proposed solutions

1. School and university students to be barred from motorised transport. Instead of kiddies being delivered to school by car, and students driving themselves, they're welcome to travel by skateboard, roller-blade, donkey, bicycle, kayak or the old fashioned walk.

2. More shift work. People in professions other than mine to be forced to work different shifts, i.e. instead of 9am to5pm, there could be an early morning 5am to 1pm shift, and an evening 1pm to 9pm shift. This will  lessen the peak hour and spread traffic more evenly over the 24 hours.

3. People are assigned one day a week to live. There's a classic science fiction novel Dayworld in which an overcrowded Earth can only support its enormous population by having people each assigned one day a week in which they can wake up and live their life, before they sleep again for another six days. So in effect, the Earth is supporting seven times the population it could otherwise cope with. I'm in favour of this as long as I get to live perpetual Saturdays.