Comment on Children among five killed as car crashes into beer garden in regional Victoria
Salvo@aussie.zone 7 months agoIn 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 7 months ago
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 7 months ago
Do you think innocent lives is a fair price to pay for your convenience?
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 7 months ago
That’s a disingenuous question and you know it
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Driving a car creates a higher risk of killing people than anything else most people do in their lives. Just look at the road toll. Don’t kid yourself, we’re definitely talking about a trade-off between convenience and risk to people’s lives.