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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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I'd call that not so much a victory as a sad indictment of planning that it ever happened in the first place.
Half an hour average to just get out of your estate? What a miserable way to live.
Yeah, that's what happens when you let developers build whatever they want without reserving any space for any form of public transport in the future, and when you can't even be arsed putting a decent bus service in
Not quite as bad as another estate I remember hearing about a couple of years ago where nobody could be bothered putting in a freeway interchange both ways so people heading to the city had to go half an hour away from the city so they could get off, then back on towards the city
The alternative is where every single side street into an estate has its own traffic lights. Anyone travelling down the Highway or Main road needs to stop every two kms at a new traffic light.
The local councils and/or road authorities can force land developers to improve the main road, but they also need to dictate how the main road is improved.
No, the alternative is providing superior transport connections in the form of trains, trams, and actually usable buses