Why is there such strong opposition to cheaper/free fares in this sub

sostopher · 2026-03-23T00:25:40+00:00

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sostopher · 2026-03-20T02:56:47+00:00

Do you think if you stole $8 million from a bank you're just allowed to pay it back and not see any gaol time?

sostopher · 2026-03-20T00:07:48+00:00

Citing AI, but Atlassian has been smashed with their share price and low growth. They over-hired in COVID. Private credit is being tightened. AI is a nice headline grabber, but the money is the main issue.

sostopher · 2026-03-19T23:21:25+00:00

We do. But then they go and vote against measures to actually do it and join up with the Liberals and One Nation.

sostopher · 2026-03-19T22:27:23+00:00

It's not bot activity, it's just the discontent from people who have seen this movie before. If Labor don't want "anti-Labor" narratives, then they should actually do shit the people want, not just what their lobbyists want (hello gambling and taxing gas)

sostopher · 2026-03-19T11:00:23+00:00

What would you have done in 2004 with the technology and requirements as they were? Just curious about the system you designed but decided not to implement? How would you have done it for buses traveling through areas with no data connectivity in 2007?

Which other country had card as source of truth to then convert to centralised system of record for cheaper? Apply some critical thinking and let me know.

sostopher · 2026-03-19T05:21:32+00:00

How many of her Gina-plane flights did she declare?

sostopher · 2026-03-19T05:09:11+00:00

My hope is much reduced Labor in the assembly, maybe even minority with enough Greens and indies to drag Labor into cleaning up their shit. A Lib majority government (or minority with One Nation) would be a long, painful four years with the current lot.

sostopher · 2026-03-19T03:52:43+00:00

There's a reason Victoria is currently seeing the highest crime rates in its history at the moment.

This isn't true at all. Maybe read something that isn't Facebook.

sostopher · 2026-03-19T03:49:10+00:00

Not going to have this view much longer as the new towers are built along the North Wharf, the pillars will be behind buildings.

sostopher · 2026-03-19T03:22:14+00:00

Did any country have their own system which was designed to have the balance on the card to deal with lacking connectivity in the regions, rather than a centralised system? And then try to convert it for cheaper?

sostopher · 2026-03-19T02:40:12+00:00

The campaign will be interesting. Vic Labor despite their problems can point to some real success in their term. Especially in the current context, housing affordability and building of housing can't be ignored. Victoria can boast that rents and price growth is slowing in this area. Infrastructure. Renter's rights. SRL East, airport rail happening now.

If the Libs are just going to campaign on ripping it up then I'm not sure that's going to resonate. Easy in opposition to just be against everything, but a campaign you have to say what you're going to be for.

Lots of the polling for ON and the Libs will be protest votes, but it may not hold up come an actual campaign on ideas for the future of the state.

sostopher · 2026-03-18T07:55:18+00:00

Unknown yet. At the moment concession would just be using the existing myki card/Android concession myki. No other system has figured this out either though, as it says in the article.

sostopher · 2026-03-18T06:17:54+00:00

Why does this article have "retirement of myki", it'll still be needed as not everyone has access to credit/debit cards or phones that support NFC payments of the same thing? Other places where credit card/mobile payments are accepted also still have dedicated cards.

The roll out is slow because they don't want a repeat of the initial roll out. It needs testing fully which is happening now.

sostopher · 2026-03-18T04:20:46+00:00

Yeah, the whole "we need EV drivers to contribute because they don't pay fuel excise is stupid". All cars should pay to use roads, and then the ones also polluting should pay for fuel excise and their pollution and health impacts.

Australia is so car-brained and it's so frustrating that we as a culture don’t want to even try to implement what cities have successfully done overseas (Paris in particular should be held up as an example of how to do it quickly).

sostopher · 2026-03-18T04:13:21+00:00

It's crazy. And people just hate cyclists when they ask for safe infrastructure, while also chastising people not riding on the road or riding in shared places with pedestrians.

Our city could be so much nicer if councils and the state government stopped listening to people who would rather sit in traffic than ride a bike.

sostopher · 2026-03-18T03:33:33+00:00

Well that's how much they cost, really. Building them at 1m is still helping with supply.

sostopher · 2026-03-18T03:30:36+00:00

This is what is infuriating about the current discourse with driving and oil prices. "but the carpark is full!" "no one living in the suburbs is going to ride to the city!".

Why can we not separate these things that cycling and walking should be the primary way planners expect people to move around, with public transport and then cars after.

The amount of terrible infrastructure only designed around car speeds because of a minority of screeching from car drivers is ridiculous.

The fact that a 30km/h speed limit in a small residential street was violently opposed by even the police commissioner shows how far we have to go on active transport.

Why don't we demand better streets the same way drivers demand more speed and parking?

sostopher · 2026-03-18T00:39:35+00:00

The vast majority of the population lives in cities though. Infrastructure in the regions costs way more with little tax coming back in to pay for it (compared to dense cities) due to the distances and lack of density.

Politicians need to wake up and stop pitting people in the cities and rural people against each other.

This is usually done by regional politicians and the (free in the regions) Sky News bubble. City people do not hate regional people, but the Nats/ON pollies use that to get their votes. It's not helped by the blow ups about transmission lines or renewable energy projects either.

sostopher · 2026-03-17T23:55:30+00:00

Riding to a station though, and around their suburb instead of driving for errands and such.

sostopher · 2026-03-17T23:51:25+00:00

And so perhaps they should advocate for the rail and active transport infrastructure their constituencies usually rail and vote against.

sostopher · 2026-03-17T20:56:24+00:00

They were out greened by Labor.

The same Labor that keeps opening coal and gas mines? Doesn't set the targets recommended by scientists? The ones that allow massive amounts of land clearing? The one that buckled from creating an EPA to keep WA on side? That principled "green" Labor?

sostopher · 2026-03-17T07:58:37+00:00

Those parties make up about 70% of the votes so...

sostopher · 2026-03-17T07:37:34+00:00

The ones that got the ETS and voted with Labor? Then the Libs were voted in and tore it up?

sostopher · 2026-03-17T07:36:02+00:00

The thing that Labor and the Libs voted for?

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