@pandanus @ajsadauskas @australia I misread and first thought they meant fly up drive around and while I to my shame haven't got to FNQ I thought, doing the reef one and and the rainforest the next would not do either justice.

Then I re-read and well, yikes you would not want to do that to yourself (or the other road users for that matter).

Folks do the same to NZ, long and thin is not small, for what it is worth. Our roads don't forgive that most sadly.

@C4d

Original guardian article is
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/10/shift-from-15-minute-cities-in-england-partly-due-to-conspiracy-theories

So frustrating to see this, and the same has followed here in NZ.

Particularly frustrating when it could and should have been addressed head on: The pandemic has shown we can change how we live work and move, and in a constrained fiscal environment the cheapest way to meet health, environmental and transport goals is to allow those who can cycle and walk stop clogging up roads.

But of course the car is a virtue signal of its own.

@RM_Transit @paulwallbank @jedsetter @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Yes but all the relevant infrastructure is owned by the ARTC, which is a freight railway focused organization still drowning in the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail project that was designed, yes really, on Google Maps (to get it approved before it could be realized as a boondoggle).

Also owned by the federal government who don't do passenger rail funding (essentially) and not the individual states that provide public transport.

@zurohki @Hypx Given the ability to build pretty large hydrogen or ammonia tanks, would it scale better than dams or chemistry for week-plus durations?