“It is vital for the future if the city that every citizen should concern himself of the details of the master plan for Melbourne”
Planning for Melbourne's future 70 years ago
Submitted 3 months ago by notgold@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t1lcdWvwTvE&si=K27fyRmxzn3mdqJJ
jessta@aus.social 3 months ago
@notgold The classic second stage of the Car Ponzi scheme. They make a big list of the problems that cars created, ascribe them to population growth and then double down on cars as the solution.
notgold@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Ridiculous isn’t it. They showed all the footage of car in grid lock with trains and trams overflowing, then the board of works decided they would just set out some land for highways to fix everything. Around the same time they were decommissioning the inner circle rail line.
jessta@aus.social 3 months ago
@notgold yeah, it's so easy to see it was bad with hindsight. But it also should have been easy to see at the time with some simple maths.