Hanrahan

Ueah, notoce the lack of giant fans, unlike car tunnels, that need then to try and get rid of the toxic pollution.

Australia has e-cargo trikes deliveing mail in many places. Pretty cool ! Theyre out of Switzerland

https://www.justbikes.com.au/news-and-reviews/aus-post-expands-electric-trike-fleet/787992

Many stops and 100 yr old alignment, we don't take public transit seriously in most of Australia and particularly in Queensland. It can take longer as there is only a service ever 30mins.

One time it was pouring rain, I had to stand on the seat at Eagle Junction Station becase the cover where you wait is like a bus shelter and it was blowing in.

It also shares the line with freight in parts, and our spangly new inland rail freight line will end in suburban Brisbane where they'll the offload to trucks to transport it 50km to/from the sea port and it does't extend to the next biggst freight port a few 100km up the state at Gladstone. Many of us seem to think this is a marvelous idea.

Was watching a video of the new metro line in Vietnam and sighed :(

I used to live on the Gold Coast and caught the train all the time as well as the tram on the Gold Coast (was car free living there) My mother asked one time how long it took to come up and see her, I said I don't know, i was engrossed in my book. She refused to catch the train :)

Another balls up, instead if going to the airport on the Gold Coast they've decided to turn Burleigh Heads into a giant bus stop and use buses and Trams.

A decent argument was to be had over should it be extending heavy rail (my pick) l, or light rail to the Gold Coast airport, the new government chose buses ..wtf ?

Going to be interesting for the Olympics :)

Is this some.sort of American polotical ploy I'm unaware of? accuse your opponent of being sane and sensible, is that a pejorative now ?

Speaking of planners, i follow

@drtcombs@triangletoot.party

on Mastodon (a transportation expert who cycles and cycles with her kid) and she put me onto this book

https://bookwyrm.social/book/1907724/s/killed-by-a-traffic-engineer

Thanks for that.. Done

Three million?! Who the hell has that much?

80,000 rich Australians, mostly its via an SMSF and they dump.assents in ther to avoid ..paying tax , whihc is the entire point of this.

Personally i think the Greens $2Million cap thats indexed is a better idea but Im sure Albo will die on that cross with his hatred of The Greens as he's now trying to work with the LNP to get it through the Senate instead.

The irony if the endless artickes in the AfR decrying how unfair it all is.

Running alongside articles about how terrible it is there hasn't been tax reform for 24 years

It's the same whenever the possibility of death taxes are raised, I am always bemused how the average person is outraged by this, as though a high tax on say >$10Million inheritance is some sort of outrage but inherited dynastic wealth that leads to vast inequality and political manipulation isn't. Let alone it was often made off the back of generous tax subsidies in the first place, like large super balances.

Anddddd... He's back!

Foolosh ? stupid

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

Gaza , Ukraine both seem popular places to kill kids.

Driveways also seem popular.