The main point is to disentangle those lines from the city loop. That way more services can be run and since the lines will be independent a problem on one line won’t bring down the entire network any more.
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zikto Australian Politics•Australia's criminalisation of peaceful protest is a stain on our democracy7·9 months agoIf it’s peaceful it’s peaceful. When I check the dictionary under “peaceful” it doesn’t say anything about business.
Or rather they’ve decided what areas they’ll mess around for years while nothing gets done until this farce finally gets canned.
zikto Brisbane•Queensland Government promises to build yet another (probably tolled) fucking car tunnel.3·10 months agoYes, you pay to build it with your taxes and then you pay to use it as well. It’s a win-win!
zikto Australian Politics•Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs7·10 months agoNuclear power’s already much more expensive than every other mainstream option, and the gap is widening every year. In twenty years time it’s going to be so much more expensive it’ll be ridiculous. No one’s going to want to buy power for several times the cost of all the other options.
The idea’s not only dumb - it’s completely commercially unviable.
zikto Australian Politics•Federal Coalition commits to dumping 2030 climate target as it pursues nuclear power9·10 months agoIt just seems dumb at this point. Nuclear energy is so incredibly expensive compared to the alternatives. Most countries are moving away from it due to it being commercially unviable. And yet here we are with the NLP acting like it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
I know they see it as their duty to push the opposite of whatever Labor’s doing but they don’t seem to care that it’s just a bad idea.
zikto Australian Politics•Federal Coalition commits to dumping 2030 climate target as it pursues nuclear power1·10 months ago“We’re already doing very little but it’s WAY TOO MUCH!”
This was a really interesting bit of history. Thanks Philip.
zikto Australian Politics•Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood4·11 months agoAt what point do Labor realise “Are we the baddies?”
zikto Aussie Enviro•Coles and Woolworths given more time to deal with thousands of tonnes of stranded REDcycle plastic waste5·11 months agoMore time to do what exactly? Soft plastics are effectively unrecyclable. There are no commercial scale recycling plants in Australia which can recycle soft plastics. And even if we did build them the depolymerisation process which soft plastics require takes so much energy it’d be more environmentally sound to landfill it anyway.
The whole thing’s a mess and really the only solution is to stop producing as much soft plastics.
I work in software and we’re permanently work from home. (I don’t want to name my employer but they’re a medium sized company)
Even more interesting is how all of Geelong is excluded from Melbourne’s count when Gosford’s included in Sydney’s count, despite neither place being continuously connected to the larger city, Geelong being closer to Melbourne than Gosford is to Sydney, and Geelong having just as large a proportion of daily commuters as Gosford.
The reality is that Melbourne’s population outpaced Sydney a long time ago and the boundaries are only just starting to catch up.
I’m literally one of those people who you say is vanishingly small.
It’s not even a “the world is bad and I don’t want to subject my child to that” kind of decision. It’s more like a series of thoughts over the years: “is this the right time to have a kid?” and it’s never a good time.
I did a double-take at “Australia’s biggest city” referring to Melbourne
It overtook Sydney about a year ago when the ABS revised the statistical areas: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65261720
Based on these new boundaries Melbourne’s had a higher population than Sydney since 2018.
zikto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists3·1 year agoAmong scientists there wasn’t any significant doubt twenty years ago. It was just spin doctors trying to pretend otherwise.
zikto Australian Politics•Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised'2·1 year agoWhy not start them off in the way you mean to continue? It’s not like there are any significant downsides.
zikto Australian Politics•Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised'11·1 year agoCompulsory is such a good system. It doesn’t take long. It’s on a weekend so it’s not inconvenient. You get a sausage at the sausage sizzle and you do your vote. There’s a real holiday atmosphere. And it produces much more representative results. Brexit wouldn’t have happened if they had compulsory voting so there’s no denying it’s valuable.
zikto Perth / Western Australia•Finally, after a long blockage, it's now legal in WA to take a plunger to a toilet or change a showerhead2·1 year agoThree hours? Our plumber was “too busy” to show for two weeks running.
zikto Australia•Federal Court publishes affidavit detailing Seven Network payments to Bruce Lehrmann, including for sex, drugs2·1 year agoThe producer who was lumped with this was horrified and handed in his resignation the next day. I don’t think he was happy with the situation.
That Arden station facade is absolutely huge. But why? Why spend so much money on such a large facility when the Paris metro gets by fine with only using this much space. It just feels like it’s more inconvenient for the users since they have to walk an extra couple of hundred metres for no good reason. And it looks unnecessarily expensive both in building costs and real estate when a smaller entrance would do just fine.