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Most Australians take more than 30 minutes to get to work. How does that compare to other countries? (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 4 months ago by Baku to c/australia
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[–] Baku 49 points 4 months ago (3 children)

In Melbourne we do this thing where we let developers build suburbs with zero infrastructure, refuse to put buses or other public transport in when asked because it's "not viable", then a decade later we will put a bus route in, but then bitch and whinge because nobody's catching it. Then maybe 5 or 6 decades after that, we'll order a feasibility study to see if we should build a train station there, then it'll be deemed to expensive and we'll wait another century before deciding to spend insanely high amounts of money on either building an underground station, or acquiring a shit ton of land.

If somebody would use their damn brains and realise it is cheaper and easier to at the very least plan for and reserve land in these new developments for public transport, and these new suburbs would stop being opened without bus stops, supermarkets, and GP clinics, we'd all be better off...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@Baku @ajsadauskas we could learn some things from China who are willing to build metro stations in the middle of overgrown fields they know will be developed in the coming years

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chongqing-china-metro-station-nowhere/index.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think metro stations are a bit overkill, especially for Australia's cities. I'd settle for the government releasing solid plans for train lines in new areas, and developers being required to cede the land for them while building out new suburbs. As well as increasing the taxes on those developers profits, directly into a fund to pay for the line to be built.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

we should stop posting one off things as examples of 'good' or 'bad'. it just makes things that are actually good seem impossible to achieve.

[–] smegger 5 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a standard government planning process to me. :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's amazing how much impact the privatisation of land development has, there are missed opportunities across the environmental and sustainablity fronts.