Comment on Children among five killed as car crashes into beer garden in regional Victoria

• MuThyme@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Busses shouldn’t be profitable anyway, it’s meant to be a service

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How I wish that was the case

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think innocent lives is a fair price to pay for your convenience?

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      • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a disingenuous question and you know it

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• Petri3136@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• Death2Litterers@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How far is the train station?

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    15km lots of hills, trucks and no bike lanes you would be a suicidal fool to attempt it

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    • Death2Litterers@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No worries. Ban the trucks and get an electric bike.

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      • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How are we supposed to move the large amounts of rock to build roads (because you still neef them for bikes) and the housing that is required for everyone to move to the city as everyone seems to want me to do here

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