• Treevan 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Nice reply. It certainly is the chicken or the egg story.

    We went car free when we were in New Farm (back when rents were more affordable) and that was probably the nicest period of my life. Big walk to the city but it was doable.

    When the artist’s rendition has you surrounded by busy roads and the rest of Brisbane is made up of First Nation’s walking tracks converted to 2 lane roads that are barely coping as is, I can’t imagine any change in our immediate future. Entrenched is right.

    It’s going to get smoggier. Some of the “stroad” videos have designs to make cars less of a viable option but have cars (buses) remain a main form of transport. Anyone reading this, watch this video and have a guess how our roads are designed. Badly, basically:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I lived in a little unit above a shop in spring hill for a while when I was single. It was probably my favourite residence as I could just walk to almost anything I wanted.