• Emily (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Canberra may be boring, but the “trendier” areas (i.e. along the tram line) have made good strides in moving away from car-focused urban planning. Shame those areas are super expensive.

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      7 months ago

      But they havnt fucking replaced the car transport with a feasable alternative. The tram goes between nothing and fuck all, busses come every half hour if ur lucky. So if ur like the 99% of people in canberra and dont live in the friggin city its at least an hour commute by public transport if ur area even has public transport. Or u could drive and do it in 10mins. In theory ita great in practice its a complete clusterfuck much like everything the socialists try and implement.

      • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneM
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        7 months ago

        its a complete clusterfuck much like everything the socialists try and implement.

        Why is public transport socialist now? Public transport existed before Karl Marx was born.

        But they havnt fucking replaced the car transport with a feasable alternative

        Car transport isn’t really feasible when you account for pollution, infrastructure costs, scalability and safety. It just seems to be accepted. It was feasible when the population was small and cars were unaffordable for most. Additionally, cars aren’t feasible when you’ve mixed alcohol with prescription medication and laying down next to a planter box, apparently something that happens in Canberra.