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It'a mostly being driven by new 'estates' pushing affordable housing out to bumfuck nowhere with sucessive government failing to increase infrastructure to suit. This is changing, but the rail's taking a while to complete - first stage was to streamline the amount of trains that could run (hampered by the traditional spoke design with the terminus at Flinders), then putting in more interconnectivity - both still in progress.
Tl;dr; we know and the dandrews govt was actually finally working on it. But it's in an established city built primarily on volcanic rock and 30 odd years overdue, so it's taking a while