I’d suggest 35,000 low-earth-orbit satellites but Elon is already working on that.

yeah. rat lungworm.

It’s also not even a possibility. Properly walkable (for all abilities) neighbourhoods hardly exist in Australia.

In the 79 years before turning 97, she could have not voted for policymakers who push car dependency and urban sprawl.

Munin feels a little old and crusty, but just works. Over 20 years old now.

Should one sympathise with car-supremacists?

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What are your tips on glasses? I choose standard uncoated lenses nowdays after finding that anti-reflective/anti-scratch coatings often scratched easily or had an optically-rippled surface, but maybe things have improved?

ffs, every time someone from a community group asks me “Can you have a quick look at our basic website, we just need to change <reallySimpleThing>”, and I’m like “sure, i used to do web development, let’s have a look […] FFFFFFUUUUUC…”

A railway station isn’t restored until all the passenger rail lines and services are restored.

I was all ready to rant about the problem of new developments being built before public transport infrastructure, but I checked the map and there are two railway lines in the vicinity!

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12079848#map=14/-33.6923/150.8920

…that said, there is a distinct lack of cycle/pedestrian infrastructure and the style of vehicle traffic makes it hostile.

Of course, the best solution to that is limiting car traffic to a single lane, no on-street parking, and a 20km/h speed limit.

There used to be a sign “helping” cyclists already on the freeway by telling them “cross here with care”:

But it was obliterated by a vehicle:

All around Vic, too. They generally don’t even put in a bike lane, just say “use the emergency lane”. Here’s a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:

This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.

The shoulder is the emergency lane. It’s where drivers pull over into if there’s an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.

Heh. Wishful thinking.

you need not one more lane but 6 times as many lanes

That’s by design, and helps make the case for MOAR FREEWAY$$!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Hmm… would it be too much to paste some of these up around the local schools?