Travel writer living and working on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. Rail travel expert, current books on sale include Heading South and Ultimate Train Journeys: World. See my published writing at iwriter.com.au.
@ajsadauskas @awelder @jedsetter @nictea @philip @fuck_cars And Perth doesn’t even have much of a pre-car inner-city, so it’s dominated by car-friendly suburbia. The new train lines are good, but it’s a pity they run between freeways and thus miss out on local walkable neighbourhoods around them.
@ajsadauskas @philip @fuck_cars “planned railways” to significant locations are never built. Take the airport as an example.
@ajsadauskas @fediverse I’d quite like to be able to link up with people I miss who are on other platforms.
@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology Needs to be nationalised; or more precisely, converted to a non-profit body.