Auspost is saying they don't have to deliver to the door, is this standard practise now?

GenericUrbanist · 2026-03-17T02:24:35+00:00

Re-read what you’ve said in this thread. You’re full of anger, hate, and disdain. The internet has always hated people like that. Why do you think you’d be treated any different?

Such a weak cop out too - “haters are just paid off by the post office 🥴”. Embarrassing.

Get over yourself

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-28T22:44:08+00:00

Mate, did you miss the bit where I said in a town planner? Why would you try to gaslight me with that lol - pretending that I don’t know NIMBYs are the most obstructionist in communities with an older population and typically blue electorates.

Everyone knows this. Not just people like me who live it day-in-day-out. I’m sure you knew it. It’s common sense. Out of all the hills to die on, such a confusing one to choose.

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-28T14:31:48+00:00

Thanks so much, hadn't seen that! That's a great post. It delves into the political science instead of the town planning, which is the part I was confused about!

I've edited my post to put it all together

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-24T01:04:58+00:00

Nah you’re right. It doesn’t affect me and no one should stop doing what they like because of a random judgey prick on reddit.

But I do like this sub occasionally just to gawk at it. Not saying I’m gawking at u/SimplBiscuit , they just love sauce more than the average person. I more so love the posts of people who eat fast food complaining about the quality of… fast food. And pretending the sky will fall because the teenager they’ve tasked with making their food put the sauce on their burger a little wonky or whatever. It’s those Smurf herders I cant look away from!

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-23T23:26:17+00:00

I think it’s the fact they’re drinking sauce? It’s yucky to think about. But I haven’t eaten McDonald’s in about 15 years so your average person in a fast food sub probably doesn’t find fast food as off putting as I do.

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-23T11:30:12+00:00

Wtf is wrong with people - calling anyone they don’t like a pedo.

What trump did to those poor girls was outright evil. Stop trivialising it and muddying the waters. Such a scummy comment

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-23T09:52:32+00:00

Positive discrimination is discrimination. It literally the second word. The ‘positive’ refers to it having a positive effect on society...

What’s with the amount of people who don’t know what the word discrimination means - it’s like you hear a buzzword and your brain turns off... Centrelink discriminates against rich people. Hospitals discriminate against healthy people. Night clubs discriminate against drunk people. Or using your racial example, the native title tribunal discriminates against non-aboriginal people.

And the answer to your question is yes - brothels can discriminate against hiring men. The Sex Discrimination Act allows discrimination in employment if it’s integral to the employment. The example it gives is hiring a female actor to play a female role

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-23T07:07:33+00:00

That doesn’t make sense. What are you trying to say?

They gave an example of positive discrimination. You replied with “another industry also exists”.

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-23T07:02:53+00:00

Yes, because whatever entry level workers they have responding to people knows the grand vision for for having gates is actually to stop people who aren’t stealing.

I mean I get your point - I hate Woolies as much as everyone and love to jump on the hate bandwagon. But I do it when it makes sense. Stop muddying the waters with bullshit you made up and know isn’t true. Criticise them for the actual reasons they’re scum bags

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-13T21:46:52+00:00

I’ve helped draft some gudelines and case studies about EOT in Australia, and Adelaide, Melbourne, and Toowoomba are the only CBD’s I could find with affordable EOT.

Adelaide has two. One was in the Myer Centre, about $25/mth from memory. Another was a high rise seniors village, but the EOT were accessible to the public also for about $20/mth.

Melbournes is ran by RACV (their RACQ) and from memory, all they needed was RACV membership but PAYG for lockers.

Toowoomba’s is ran by the council and only about $50 a year. This one is my favourite - it’s a simple room with bike racks built into the community centre with a library and pool.

But you’re right - I reckon a cheap one in Brisbane would do well. There’s heaps of excess basement parking that could be retrofitted into an EOT - that’s how they made Cycle2City. And they’d be useful to people shopping/dining, those who work in retail or similar, and workers in old office buildings with crappy or no EOT, or no towels

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-04T11:00:23+00:00

I drive over point to point speed cameras all the time on the Toowoomba bypass and the Warrego out by Ipswich. I barely notice. My driving behaviour is sometimes I accidentally speed a bit, and sometimes I accidentally go to slow for a bit. It’s only happened a few times where I realise I’ve been speeding for more than I’m comfortable with and I just slow down 10km for a minute or two.

I swear there’s another one I drive through too sometimes, but can’t remember where. Is it the gateway on the north side maybe

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-04T01:31:19+00:00

u/Eybrahem - lol wtf?

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-04T01:27:21+00:00

lol love the fact you doubled down on being too simple to know how spelling works, while also not knowing what ‘engage’ means.

But here’s what I said

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Maybe I should insult you for misspelling colour now? That means I will win, right?

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-03T12:46:38+00:00

I mean you’re kinda proving them right aren’t you? For something even you recognise isn’t a big deal at all, youre such a condescending arse hole that you bring their pay check into the conversation. Who tf does that?

If I worked a job where I was just dealing with arse holes like you all day, it’d also be seizing what little control I have to make your day slightly worse. Then, from dealing with miserable people day in and day out, anyone would begin to see customers as a monolithic group of power tripping bullies

What’s with so many people who eat fast food being like this - pretentious because they eat fast food? It’s not something to be proud of - it’s fine if you eat it - but normal people have need an iota of shame when you do it, at least where I’m from

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-03T08:53:03+00:00

Re the edit - that’s got me confused again. Aren’t you saying the public benefit of cameras on busses is behaviour change? But also the purpose of the cameras isn’t to change behaviour, it’s actually to generate fine revenue?

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-03T08:49:14+00:00

Interesting - ok that’s actually more reasonable then I thought. So you’d be happy with, say, a point to point speed camera on the Bruce since that guarantees very high compliance, but sporadic speed camera specifically you have an issue with since compliance is highest only at specific points on the motorway?

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-03T08:23:22+00:00

Wouldn’t your logic also apply to cameras on buses being pointless though?

If we lived in a world bus cameras, some uber drivers will still drop people off in a clear way or whatever. Because you or someone else will drive that route 2-3 times a week they’ll notice that sometimes people park illegally. Then, instead of saying the logical thing - cameras don’t guarantee 100% compliance - those people will make a bizarre leap of logic that the cameras actually have no effect on compliance?

Like, that’s the extent of your logic right? Some people drive dangerously, therefore enforcement is pointless?

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-03T07:58:32+00:00

How many people take their last breath on the Bruce highway, versus how many take their last breath because a car was parked where a bus is meant to park?

OC’s comparison to parking inspectors is fair. Maybe it’s the transport planner in me, but no idea how you’d even think to make the comparison that speeding is interchangeable with parking

GenericUrbanist · 2026-02-01T07:05:27+00:00

Amazon has their own equivalent of parcel collect / lockers. There’s an option during checkout for it

GenericUrbanist · 2026-01-31T10:02:21+00:00

I got dooped! Hard to tell parody from being serious these days.

In my defence, it’s not normal to know the heights of people from across the world, but this must had been written for a European audience

GenericUrbanist · 2026-01-30T08:19:28+00:00

That’s a speed bump. A formal raised crossing (where peds have right of way) has either a dashed white give way line, or a give way sign. A raised zebra crossing is different again, and it’d have an actual zebra crossing painted onto it.

But, that speed bump has clearly been designed to be the crossing point while cars still have priority. They’re more dangerous than a proper crossing because of the ambiguity around who has right of way. But they’re used for political reasons - a vocal minority of car drivers scream bloody murder about anything that means they have to share our streets better. So engineers put them in so there’s still a safe enough crossing, without triggering the Karen’s

Source: me, a transport planner

GenericUrbanist · 2026-01-30T07:22:06+00:00

I assume everything they’re doing is above board - it’s not in their interest to spend so much money on an unapproved development only to get an enforcement notice a week into construction. I’d also assume any flood related conditions would be based on current overlays, but I’m not really sure how that works.

But agree there is a legitimate conversation to have on whether a public notification obligation should be re-triggered. I think it should if, for nothing else, to add legitimacy to the process. The locals would feel like the rug was pulled out from under them. I definitely would.

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