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At present, North Shore City has 189,700 residents with that figure expecting to grow between 11 and 24 per cent by the year 2016. The growth of traffic on the North Shore increases at twice the rate of the population. This leads to increased use and congestion of the Northern Motorways. In peak-time, the averaging speeds along the Northern Motorway are between 25 to 45km/hr, which makes it a slow and tiring journey. To deal with the North Shore’s expected population increase; we need to decrease the amount of private cars on the motorway. Each car traveling in the peak hours in North Shore City carries an average of only 1.2 people, whereas a bus carries on average 40 people. At this time, in the morning peak hours, buses only carry 15 per cent of the people across the Harbour Bridge