Shit now I can’t get home because I live in a rural area and have to drive to the train station. It would be unreasonable to cycle that distance and unprofitable to run buses often enough to be useful
Comment on Children among five killed as car crashes into beer garden in regional Victoria
Death2Litterers@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Ban all cars
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
MuThyme@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Busses shouldn’t be profitable anyway, it’s meant to be a service
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
How I wish that was the case
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
In the short term, it would be time to either relocate to somewhere more practical, or change your lifestyle.
Before cars there were much more extensive public transport and freight systems, especially in regions that weren’t serviced by extant rail corridors.
Just in Western Gippsland;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strzelecki_railway_line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonthaggi_railway_line en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noojee_railway_line
Unfortunately, since these Alignments were abandoned by disuse, much of the land has been reclaimed by farmers and developers using colonial-era squatters rights laws. There would need to be extensive Eminent Domain claims raised to reestablish the type of coverage we had before Private vehicles became ubiquitous.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
In the short term, it would be time to either relocate to somewhere more practical, or change your lifestyle.
Because that’s something easily doable in today’s economy.
I’ve got no problem with cars being mostly removed from our cities and it’s slowly happening, but the utility of a car cannot be overlooked for non-repetitive and unplanned travel for those of us who don’t like the city
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Do you think innocent lives is a fair price to pay for your convenience?
Petri3136@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
It’s unreasonable to live there then. Your choice relies on the rest of the world pressing a price of unnecessary car trips and the infrastructure for it. And not just now but people in the future will bear the consequences of your decision to live in a place that requires that.
Death2Litterers@feddit.uk 1 year ago
How far is the train station?
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
15km lots of hills, trucks and no bike lanes you would be a suicidal fool to attempt it
Death2Litterers@feddit.uk 1 year ago
No worries. Ban the trucks and get an electric bike.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Banning all cars is impractical because of last mile delivery and rural areas, but car usage must be dramatically decreased especially for commuting
Salvo@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Drivers need to be held accountable and there needs to be infrastructure in place so that individuals that cannot/ refuse to be held accountable have alternate transportation options.
If you crash your BMW (with dozens of driver assistance features) into a Pub, you should not be allowed to drive a vehicle. If you cannot share roads with other road users without getting angry, you should not be allowed to drive a vehicle. If you feel entitled to drive a vehicle on the roads, but believe that motorcyclists, trucks, cyclists and pedestrians should not receive those same entitlement, you should not be allowed to drive a vehicle. If your attention span is so short that you cannot drive a vehicle without getting distracted by a handheld device, you should not be allowed to drive a vehicle.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Amen 🙌
Death2Litterers@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Last mile delivery: Image
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
that’s pretty cool but wouldn’t be nice in hilly areas
mupAus@aussie.zone 1 year ago
They’re usually electric assisted though; no problems with hills.