PhD candidate, writing about the art of government of transport planning: maps as manifestations of power, models as inseparable from plans, questions of what planning is as questions of what it should be, and good planners as bad planners.
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One of the topics for my undergrads’ end-of-semester debate was that Melbourne’s PT should be free.
The affirmative went into the process agreeing with this position. They came out the other side convinced of the opposite.
Research shows that availability of residential parking (via stat minima) increases car ownership. Meanwhile, Melbourne CBD has had a stat maximum for residential parking for years, and there’s still an oversupply.
This suggests that excess parking supply is a feature of automobility, not a bug.
Ideological echo chamber, eh Sky News?
Takes one to know one.
Very useful customer service from the Metro Trains staff member at North Melbourne, who didn’t seem to have any idea about how planned disruptions were affecting services, and then immediately went back to doomscrolling on their phone after answering my question.
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What is an appropriate class size for discussion-based tutorials and why is that number twelve?
Imagine your railway station design philosophy being “ultra bland so we can cram as much advertising in as humanly possible”.
If the obnoxious and exceedingly bright video screen adverts in the munnel weren’t enough for you, you’ll be pleased to know that the walkway connecting library to central is now plastered with floor-to-ceiling, ten-metre-long adverts for some superannuation company or another.
"I'm legally authorised to operate a car and I plan renewable energy but woe is me I simply cannot handle the complexity of paying for public transport" is exactly the kind of low rent energy I've come to expect from the Greens and their candidates on transport issues of late.
Today I learned that apparently yank tanks pay twice as much to use Melbourne's toll roads.
Bourman is right - this is an injustice!
We should be charging them five or six times as much.
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The increasing popularity of giant utes is prompting a parliamentary inquiry to consider reducing the amount they are charged to use Melbourne’s toll roads.
