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

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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.

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