CBD and surrounds more and more important. Travel surveys tell us what share of all trips is captured by each mode. They establish that public transport's share is small relative to other modes (essentially cars) in Australian cities. This is useful and important information. However as the ABS survey shows, a large proportion of people use public transport on a reasonably frequent basis. Public transport is needed by lots of people not just those who use it Monday to Friday. And it's needed even though those same travellers make the majority of their other trips by car. There are important implications in the findings of the ABS survey. One is obvious -- governments need to invest more financial and political capital in improving public transport. The other is less obvious -- advocates shouldn't limit themselves to presenting public transport solely as a replacement for cars. In the medium term at least, it's much more likely to be an alternative for some trips and a complement for others (e.g. 'kiss-and-ride'). There are other interesting aspects of the ABS survey --  like who uses public transport and why -- I'll come back to shortly. Absolutely correct Alan -- lots of people use PT sometimes, especially where car travel not a desirable option -- so be good just to make it more desirable more of the time, not expect people not to want and use cars as well. Re 'hk"s question, reference to the survey states that 16% of employed patrons in Zones