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[-] Baku@aussie.zone 43 points 4 months ago

In Melbourne we do this thing where we let developers build suburbs with zero infrastructure, refuse to put buses or other public transport in when asked because it's "not viable", then a decade later we will put a bus route in, but then bitch and whinge because nobody's catching it. Then maybe 5 or 6 decades after that, we'll order a feasibility study to see if we should build a train station there, then it'll be deemed to expensive and we'll wait another century before deciding to spend insanely high amounts of money on either building an underground station, or acquiring a shit ton of land.

If somebody would use their damn brains and realise it is cheaper and easier to at the very least plan for and reserve land in these new developments for public transport, and these new suburbs would stop being opened without bus stops, supermarkets, and GP clinics, we'd all be better off...

[-] smegger@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a standard government planning process to me. :(

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