Australia does well, but not everywhere. We also had our few decades of automania, that saw our tram lines ripped up in the burbs, and sprawl reach outward with

Australia does well, but not everywhere. We also had our few decades of automania, that saw our tram lines ripped up in the burbs, and sprawl reach outward with highways. I had to battle this old auto-topian design this week in order to take my car to a mechanic, ironically. There is a train station about 500 meters behind the workshop, as the crow flies. I thought I would just drop my car off, walk to the train, head into the city. It took 45 minutes of detours and a lot of sketchy sections to actually get to the train station. Lucky to have the suburban train for sure, but this particular old suburb had assumed everyone was in a car, and it simply hasn't put in the work to make it traversable to pedestrians. No sidewalks, lots of dead end roads and uneccessary fences. At one point I was staring at the station, with no way to get to it. Looong impermeable business parks etc. I just wasn't meant to be there by design.