Sadly, very optimistic of you to think that the people of your country in any way came into his thinking.

That dude who says he voted for Trump 3X did, in fact, vote for this dumbassery.

Conveniently also these exits going to the suburbs with the worst public transport access and low rail availability. Nice to see Labor feel lower income areas should have to pay a premium just to access their city and forced into a car + tolls.

It’s borderline malicious to take lanes away from those whose tolls paid for the bridge so that they are now pushed towards a paid tunnel which offers zero time or service improvements (outside those generated by introducing this restriction from 5+ lanes to one. Once again Lab disdains safe seats.

Which genius at VicGov’s department of handing transurban money decided a single lane bottleneck from the east to Millers Rd / Grieve Pde was a good idea?

It’s ok. It’s not real, but totally worth it if it makes Dan popular.

In my lifetime bring fit to be PM doesn’t appear high on the criteria to be PM.

Both these can be true.

Especially given he was happy to ride her coattails when convenient.

Me sleeping peacefully after reading this.

They have to do something that the Gov doesn’t want them to do.

Bar should put up photos of Hanson with actual quotes and see if they get another visit.

lol. Damming with beyond faint praise.

100% the same playbook that will be - and has - used against those protesting the obliteration of our climate.

“We don’t like being visible and accountable.”

Great work Labor. Just perfect.

Anyone else wondering what year the Winter Olympics becomes untenable due to climate change?

The reality is that it shouldn’t matter. Foreign states should be open to free and frank criticism - fair or otherwise.

lol. Classic VicGov.

That may be the case, but the key word is effective. Not just existing.

Strange reasoning. Trump administration is more than capable of doing this without assistance.

Their job is to Govern for the commonwealth , not ratings. Barely anybody even engages with MSM - literally a minority and decreasing by the year. They are dying entities grasping for power that is slipping away.

They didn’t care when their project literally killed people - not a surprise that comfort isn’t high on their priority list.

We've done whole of society change before. 100 years ago in fact to fill our cities and build them around automobiles. I'm not sure why doing so again is so unthinkable.

Labor were under assault by the MSM from the start of his first term - and that led to the largest Gov majority in decades. I'm far from convinced Labor not kowtowing to the worst of our corporate media is the political suicide you predict.

Sometimes I wonder if this is how the Romans in Britain, the Sumerians in as their culture faltered and failed before their eyes.

What relief!

Absolute nonsense.

It mostly means exactly what it has for all of human history: might = right for these people.

Literally is being paid to encourage division and bigotry

This is a little similar to some of the classic TNG era of Star Trek - a tiny bit of character development, but mostly just a few hints of off screen to create broad strokes for characters and let imaginations run wild. Gives writers / actors / directors so much room to move in regular stories.

I don't like your chances given the largest ever petition to Parliament in history for a RC into exactly this issue got 3 seconds consideration from this Government before being ignored.

Worse for weeks, bad for a decade easily. No idea what genius decided to keep one right turning lane (southbound) onto Geelong Rd - to enable 3 lanes for 50m under the FWY - when the right turning lane is one of the biggest traffic holdups on Millers. Same North, should be a dedicated left.

G: Got to protect children. Vox: Cool, let’s immediately phase out fossil fuels that are making our world uninhabitable. Gov: no, not like that.

That Somerville Rd stretch is awful as well, I used to do that daily to cut through that section and get to the rail line bit (which is very safe) to Footscray. Not a chance in hell I'd ride in the painted lane - genuine death zone.

That section between Yarraville and Footscray is almost exactly what I used to take when I still rode in. Unfortunately getting from one side of Yarraville to the other is kind of fraught with danger in my experience. I quite for a while after experiencing two incidents in 5 mins on Anderson St.

Happens to the best of us. Let he who has not cast the first, second and third butchery knives and hidden the body cast the first stone!

It’s not like community had a choice either way. The EES process outlined the - numerous - serious traffic, pollution and health impacts across adjacent communities, cyclists etc - then the planning minister pulls out the rubber stamp and job done. Suck it up people.

Just got back from a Europe / Japan trip. This - and the obcene amount of traffic / trucks everywhere - are the biggest culture shocks.

We are just like them, except for the free electricity and university part.

Labor. A slightly less awful LNP.

It’s also

This is what voting majority parties gets you. Disdain when in power, lies when out.

Been saying this for years. The others should have as well next to hospitals and state library.

Makes sense in a way. IMO one of the biggest reasons for speed on a bike is the amount of work involved in accelerating. E-bike doesn’t have that punishment so much easier to just cruise.

Same. Been off and on for years and renshuu is the first that has “stuck” - essentially free but you can lifetime subscribe for a few bonus features (ie. to support the devs)

Yup. Also Hydro is true blue blah blah old school fossil fuels are part of the solution cue nostalgic black and white footage.

$12bn could alss as o have bought a lot of big batteries - that would already be running.

Smart cities don’t need cars at all to transport kids to school.

The message is obvious - they don’t actually have an issue with any of it. It’s a bonus that it torched their opponents.