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Would you support public transport improvements?

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The user here is a known car-brained troll. They have a long history of opposing better urban planning.

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I had a scroll through their history and couldn’t really find any evidence of trolling - but I might not have gone back far enough. Have you got any examples of them trolling you could point us at?

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So, it turns out it’s from a different user account, but with the same username, on a different instance. Given how specific the username part is, I would be shocked if it’s not the same human being behind it.

But here’s one thread where they’ve done it before. They deliberately insert themselves into conversations choosing to throw ridiculous straw men around in an attempt to pretend that car-brain is normal and good urban planning practices are absurd. Troll tactics, through and through.

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Yeah I have no idea where that came from. For the record, I own two bicycles, use them frequently and my car use is limited to when there’s at least two people or I need to transport something large/bulky, and I use public transport whenever it makes sense. Which, sadly, isn’t very often.

Motorbike is my main form of transport… but taking a young child on a motorbike is illegal in Australia.

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Of course I’d support better public transport.

But I’m not really sure what form that would take? The bus from my house to the childcare centre obviously drops us off there when the bus is scheduled to do so, which means I will always face the longest possible wait for the next bus to come by. It only takes two minutes to drop the kid off… but the bus driver isn’t going to wait.

And it’s pretty normal for public transport to not go to where you’re going unless you’re going to or from the CBD. That means changing busses.

I could live in the CBD… then transit infrastructure would be great - but the realestate there is way out of my reach, price wise.

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how we can upgrade PT:

  • higher bus frequency
  • bus route reform (some current routes really suck)
  • more bus lanes on congested routes
  • more bike infrastructure so you don’t have to ride a bus/car/train to get anywhere
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