Dilletante.
Sydney
Joined March 2007
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Sydney & Melbourne are at exactly the size where adding more cars doesn’t work
The reply that got me blocked by @PhilWMagness
Carbrain infects all sorts of people.
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every new luxury building is somebody’s affordable apartment in 20 years. that’s how literally every older apartment you can afford right now came to exist. someone built it new and someone complained it was too fancy
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Every driver privatises public space. Creating a loading zone distributes that public space more widely than if it's privatised by a single driver.
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if only the Australian Greens would realise this in their overzealous attempts to become beige copycats of Mamdani
Imagine the outrage if it had been an ebike
abc.net.au/news/2026-10-03/n…
If you're too incompetent to use a phone app you're too incompetent to drive, and you should have your licence revoked.
abc.net.au/news/2026-09-22/q…
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Never forget what they took from you.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/cars…
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The QVB would never have been built under today’s heritage regime. The city had to demolish the old central markets on the site to build it.
This is what used to be there.
dictionaryofsydney.org/index…
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A parking lot turns into an apartment building with 120 units
That’s 200+ vehicles displaced and turned into parking refugees
All so a few selfish people can “live” close to some dirty area called downtown
But they never stopped to think about the poor cars
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However frustrated you may be by the dominance of cars, it's important not to talk about motorists this way. Cars are a problem in cities, for purely geometric reasons, but the people in the cars are not enemies. We just want them to have more and better options.
"heritage" is a smokescreen for NIMBYism and status quo bias.
Heritage policy is a fraud.
We forgo billions preserving ordinary suburban houses.
Exacerbating the housing affordability crisis.
But neglect items of genuine value, like 18th century graves.
"heritage" is a smokescreen for NIMBYism and status quo bias.
youtube.com/watch?v=YaJg0Dtl…
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a 5,000 pound suv kills a pedestrian and it is a tragic accident. a bike lane proposal kills a parking space and it is a war on cars.
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One weird thing about traffic jams:
I've noticed motorcyclists go between the other vehicles to get around traffic
But cars can't fit
What if we made the spaces between each lane larger so that additional cars could fit through during traffic jams?
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People who sometimes use a bicycle for transportation are much better drivers because they have more than just a windshield perspective of the world around them.
You don't need to ride a bike long distances or every day. Periodic bike rides will improve your driving.
I did this once and the guy in the car jumped out and came after me. I ducked onto a store and hid behind a rack of clothes.
Car-brained people are insane.
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Great campaign by the RACQ on road deaths in Queensland.
Meanwhile the government is addressing the issue by **checks notes** raising bicycle helmet fines to the highest in the world.
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I stand behind the belief that personal automobiles make people more conservative because you both A) don’t get exposed enough to your fellow citizens and learn to live in a society and B) learn to hate other people because they only act as congestion that slows you down
