Who the hell would want to drive within a kilometer of the MCG when there’s an event on? There are trains and trams right outside and they are sooooooo much quicker than cars.
Honestly, that stadium is filled every weekend for half the year. People should know better.
Who the hell would want to [insert stupid thing here]?
Yanks. The answer is always yanks.
I live right near the MCG and a decent number of people still drive in. I’m not sure why though since the city council makes a fortune by doing the rounds 2 hours in to a game and ticketing everyone without a parking permit (which is a lot of people) and the number of vehicle break-ins is pretty high too.
Sunk cost fallacy.
They are paying money to own these vehicles, therefore they must use these vehicles for everything possible.
For these people, riding public transport is more abhorrent than having their car broken into, or to receive a parking fine for parking in someone else’s rightful carpark.
I’ve said a few times recently, in most urban planning respects Australia is like America but just a little bit better.
The catch is when it comes to big stadiums and other large event venues. Our stadia are leaps and bounds better than America’s from an urban planning perspective.
Canberra may be boring, but the “trendier” areas (i.e. along the tram line) have made good strides in moving away from car-focused urban planning. Shame those areas are super expensive.
The problem with Canberra is that it has a large amount of sprawl, but at least they seem to be heading in the right direction. They also have a nice cycle network, although it seems from a distance to be more recreational than used for transport.
@vividspecter @EmilyIsTrans The original Walter Burley Griffin plan for Canberra was solid.
The general pattern of town centres off main roads, with suburbs generally surrounded by parks and green space, is a good one.
You can also get around most of the metro area through off-road cycling paths and side streets.
So there’s something to work with.
The problem is the suburbs that were tacked on in the decades after World War 2, which are filled with cul-de-sacs and circular streets.
And because a greater chunk of Canberra was built in the post-war years, a greater proportion of the metro area follows those US suburban street patterns (compared to the state capitals).
*Stares silently in the general direction of Kambah and Tuggers*.
The light rail is fantastic, but it needs to be extended to the south side of Canberra (and over the longer term, to the airport and train station).
The train services from Sydney to Canberra is a whole rant I won’t get into.
In terms of newer developments, I think @philipthalis deserves a lot of credit for the mixed-use medium density design of Whitlam Town Centre.
Really, the biggest shortcoming is the lack of light rail nearby. Hopefully, the network is eventually extended out that way through either Belconnen or Weston at some point in the future.
(Even something like a high-frequency bus to a future light rail station in Belconnen would do wonders.)
Shame those areas are super expensive.
Yeah unfortunately that will tend to happen when it’s only done haphazardly. Surprise surprise, people like living in well-defined urban spaces! And will pay to do it!
Plus, I’m guessing that there may have been better public transport and cycling infrastructure, but a lot of the time it’s probably still low-density single-family homes, rather than increasing to medium density row houses and apartments? That’s obviously also going to be a big driver of cost.
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