A melbournian with many interests:
* Christian (very liberal)
* Embedded Linux Engineer
* Magic The Gathering judge
* Mechanical keyboard enthusiast (mostly DIY, all very small, Colemak layout)
* Trying to get into woodworking
All too often I come off as argumentative, I’m working on it but definitely a work in progress. Also frequently more pedantic than I’m comfortable with.
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@Maggoty @UnderpantsWeevil Melbourne is slowly on it’s journey to banning cars in the CBD. I wish we’d do it with a timeline with less decades in it, but each step towards it is good.
So far 2 of 21 pieces of street have been made car free.
@Wrufieotnak @hobovision stock images would have worked fine. Or google earth.
@Olgratin_Magmatoe @kurwa I wouldn’t go that far. Just because every step is wrong, doesn’t make the thought process that weird.
I’m saying we should have compassion for their misunderstanding. The conclusion is wrong, but the path to get there isn’t that hard. Particularly when you’ve been raised in that paradigm (or raised watching media that shows it as the ideal).
@Username @HiddenLayer555 no, the store will just have local customers. And yes there are plenty of those when you can replace the carpark with apartments.
@OsrsNeedsF2P I meant a bigger problem in China
@andrew_s @JackGreenEarth And tags still help things spread further regardless of the federated service they start on.
@Alsephina @Juice Isn’t their bigger problem having too many unfinished apartments? Many more than are needed.
(And are those rates including those who own apartments that will never be completed?)
@jaypatelani @ByteOnBikes why make a worse EV?
@HiddenLayer555 @dessalines There isn’t much lacking in the Japanese network.
@davel comedy mode: one more track, you wont believe how many more people can use just one more track ;)
@davel Air travel is also demanding on:
* Road infrastructure for the airport, trains deliver people closer to where they want in the first place and the connect better to the rest of the PT system.
* Land use. Airports are huge.
* Airports also cost a lot, factoring them into the price of moving people around is important, frequently this is paid for the state.
* Noisy in ways that just can’t be mitigated.
It really isn’t a good option.
@davel @elgordino the viability is: how do we let people move around the country, what is the cheapest way.
This is cheap.
It’s also cheap everywhere else.
And by cheap I mean cheaper than alternatives.
@cm0002 @ByteOnBikes yes, but the idea that EV’s solve things makes people think it is okay to not be all in on PT.
And it’s not okay.
@spankmonkey @PonyOfWar I caught a public bus to high school. To get an extra 20m of sleep I caught the one that didn’t go into the school and stopped on the wrong side of the road 1m before school started. To not be late we’d all walk out across the 4 lane road without looking. Cars will just stop.
After someone was rear ended the stop was removed.
@PhilthyHabits @JackbyDev What’s my point? Australian stadiums are better than the worst examples from the US, but they aren’t fantastic.
@PhilthyHabits @JackbyDev Melbourne’s big stadiums do have substantial car parks, but they are also a short walk from at least 1 central train station with ~10 platforms.
@SuperCub @Elkenders To most the size of an SUV is the point.
@chiliedogg @daltotron Yes, they have swallowed a lot of lies. A lot needs to change.