Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:
A fun coda to this is this recent video by @philip about when Melbourne built a giant Australian Rules football stadium without any public transport and the largest carpark in Australia, then got rid of it partly because of the legendary traffic jams it created: Waverley (neé VFL) Park https://youtu.be/LvvLwiRCx4s
@ThermiteBeGiants I had a car (Holden HR) when I lived on St Kilda Rd but I didn't need it because TRAMS! Indeed Melbourne is one of if not the easiest, most chill city to get around of the many places I have lived all over the world. Guess where else just as good? Zuerich! YES YOU GUESSED IT MORE TRAMS! 🚋😍
@ThermiteBeGiants In the San Francisco region, they built Levi's Stadium (American-rules football) at the intersection of a tram line and a train line, claiming that this would help traffic, forgetting to check that the entire daily system capacity of both of those combined would not be enough to fill the stadium, let alone to empty it quickly in the evening. In truth, they wanted to hijack the train station's parking lot when there are events, so they wouldn't have to build their own.
@ThermiteBeGiants Thanks for the alt text! Small suggestion though: Currently it mentions that there are several posts by presumably Americans asking about the parking, but it doesn't say that each of them is met by someone from Melbourne explaining that there's public transport etc.
My sarcasm sometimes works, sometimes it fails. 🤷 I was mocking the expectation of acres of car spaces.
Public transport, particularly in urban areas, should be great, and we, as a society, should be spending far more on it than we do. A lack of decent PT almost forces individual car ownership in a large city.
@thefathippy@ThermiteBeGiants I wouldn't know, Vienna has decent public transport. And my flat complex has its own underground station (admittedly, that far in the outlying districts, the "underground" goes on stilts in open air).
Funny, met yesterday at a birthday party one of the city traffic planers whose job it is to prioritize public transit traffic over private traffic. You know, additional bus lanes, traffic lights that give way to buses and trams, and so on.
These idiots used a bullsh$t generator to replace a live chat operator on their website, and now have to pay for it.
Now we need some US courts enforcing the $1 binding offers some car chatbots have offered and the whole AI hype wave will scale back to sane proportions.
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