1 March 2019

Moving Canberra Integrated Transport Draft Strategy Submission

MHCC ACT’s submission will focus on the needs of people living with mental illness and their carers, referred to as ‘lived experience’ who use public transport. People with lived experience of mental health issues are often socially isolated. Access to safe public transport is one method of reducing such isolation yet the evidence shows that as a cohort they travel less. Various factors contribute to this such as anxiety, experiences of trauma, lack of confidence,
crowding in public transport, inadequate and inaccessible information about times and destinations/routes, and the costs of travel.

Reducing barriers to public transport for people with lived experience of mental health issues is also useful in increasing community cohesion and increases people’s potential for economic activity.

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