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I wear a mask. I don't own a car.

I'm studying Italian, trying to grow some veggies and learning to be more tolerant and empathetic.

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When I grow up I want to be a train driver. Or a librarian. Or maybe a character in a William Gibson novel.

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Whoopsie! Sydney's road planners just discovered induced demand is a thing, after opening a new motorway.

For those outside Sydney, the New South Wales state government recently opened a new spaghetti intersection just west of Sydney's Central Business District.

It was supposed to solve traffic. Instead, it's turned into a giant car park:

"For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.

"Several months ago, Transport for NSW’s modelling had suggested traffic from the interchange would add only five to 10 minutes to trips on Victoria Road through Drummoyne and over the Iron Cove Bridge during morning peaks.

"Those travel delays have now blown out."

So what do motorists say when their shiny new road that was supposed to solve traffic instead turns into a massive traffic jam?

'Dude! Just one more lane!'

From the article:

"[Roads Minister John] Graham and his Transport boss Josh Murray appear reluctant to do what many motorists reckon is the obvious solution.

"That is, add lanes or make changes at the pinch-points that are causing the pain. A three-lane to one merge point from Victoria Road onto the Anzac Bridge, along with two lanes merging into one on the City West Link, are proving to be painful bottlenecks."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-planners-got-rozelle-traffic-modelling-horribly-wrong-20231129-p5ensa.html

#roads #traffic #cars @fuck_cars @sydneytrains @urbanism #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #motorways #fuckcars

luciedigitalni,
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@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars @sydneytrains @urbanism but it's literally never worked anywhere before, so it must work this time!

luciedigitalni, to random
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I heard a loud thud this morning and eventually came across this little guy, upside down on the balcony, with a few feathers flying around in the wake of his interaction with my bedroom window.

I thought he was a goner. I got him right way up and he just sat there for a while with his head askew and his beak open, presumably in shock. Then I got him up on the balcony rail. At some point he moved down to a lower rail.

After about two hours, and a trip through the house involving a few more light bangs into walls, he flew over to the big tree near my place, apparently having suffered no serious injury

small brown and grey bird sitting in a balcony rail

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@havhmayer @bojacobs @histodons not to mention the imminent Soviets

luciedigitalni,
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@havhmayer @bojacobs @histodons yes, but part of the context

luciedigitalni, to random
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At nearly half a million in a week, I think this could be close to record account growth for Mastodon. There's even stronger growth happening over at Lemmy with the #RedditMigration

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