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10 months ago@RM_Transit @paulwallbank @jedsetter @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Yes but all the relevant infrastructure is owned by the ARTC, which is a freight railway focused organization still drowning in the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail project that was designed, yes really, on Google Maps (to get it approved before it could be realized as a boondoggle).
Also owned by the federal government who don’t do passenger rail funding (essentially) and not the individual states that provide public transport.
@C4d
Original guardian article is
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/shift-from-15-minute-cities-in-england-partly-due-to-conspiracy-theories
So frustrating to see this, and the same has followed here in NZ.
Particularly frustrating when it could and should have been addressed head on: The pandemic has shown we can change how we live work and move, and in a constrained fiscal environment the cheapest way to meet health, environmental and transport goals is to allow those who can cycle and walk stop clogging up roads.
But of course the car is a virtue signal of its own.