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Oh man, which city? I’m moving back to Aus after almost 20 years away. Any place putting cars last would be top of my list.
by darkteflon 4y ago
Oh man, which city? I’m moving back to Aus after almost 20 years away. Any place putting cars last would be top of my list.
- mikhailfranco 4y agoMelbourne https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/push-to-convert-thousands-of-cbd-parking-spots-into-green-space-20221129-p5c265.html https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/push-to-convert-...
- darkteflon 4y agoAll for it, and best of luck, but from decades Living in Melbs I reckon they will struggle to pull that off. Recent shitstorm around bike lane expansion is instructive imo. Those business lobby cats are like something out of Nosferatu.
- Gigachad 4y agoI was talking about Adelaide although I don’t recommend it. The CBD is improving a lot in this regard but the wider state is still full speed ahead on cars. I’ve recently moved to Melbourne and found public transport to be massively better. I just don’t have a point of comparison to what it used to be like, like I have for Adelaide.
- darkteflon 4y agoOh nice, yeah Melbs CBD has always been that way - or at least since the early 90s, which is as far back as my memory of it goes. We spent most of our adolescence in a comparatively car-free utopia and didn’t even appreciate it. There’s a lot more that could be done, of course - in particular, expanded car-free zones in the ex-CBD inner-city suburbs. Go from the CBD down Punt or Sydney Rd, for example, and the sudden change in air quality is pretty telling. Don’t reckon anything on that score will improve within our lifetimes though.