@geillescas @jajabor @asklemmy That, and also making files/emails/calendar events synced across your computer and your phone.

@denshirenji @asklemmy On photos, does NextCloud Photos or Memories play nice with Digikam or any other desktop photo gallery applications? And what about Immich?

@AllNewTypeFace Of course there were.

For commuters:

* More densification around existing stations and tram lines instead of suburban sprawl.

* Upgrading buses across Melbourne to a 10-minute minimum frequency and straightening out existing bus routes.

* Rolling out high-capacity signalling and automatic train control across the Melbourne suburban rail network

* Building Metro 2 from Newport to Clifton Hill would double the number of trains that can run on the Hurstbridge and Mernda lines.

* Building the Doncaster Railway.

* Building the Heidelberg to Box Hill section of the SRL first.

* Extending the 48 tram to Doncaster and giving it dedicated lanes for more of its journey.

And then for freight, there’s a bunch of things too:

* Converting more suburban lines to dual gauge.

* Converting more regional Victorian lines to standard gauge

* Electrifying regional rail and freight services

* Building more multimodal facilities near existing rail lines.

@alcoholicorn Yeah, that’s not how it tends to work in Australia.

What happens is a state government puts up a good chunk of time construction costs (as much as half in some cases), plus public land.

In some cases, the freeway already exists, but the state government wants one more lane built, because it thinks that will ease congestion (as happened with sections of the Tullamarine and Monash Freeways in Melbourne).

It gets handed off to Transurban, who builds it under a long-term operating agreement (30 years is common).

In some cases, the agreements have clauses saying railways that compete with the toll road can’t be built.

As the end of the lease approaches, Transurban offers to build one more lane — in exchange for extending the agreement.

@alcoholicorn It is when it has been privatised to a company that pretty much pays no tax (hi Transurban!), for roads that taxpayers helped to pay for, and those toll roads connect car dependent suburbs that have next to no public transport.

@Gurre @fuck_cars The road lobby’s big answer to the mess they’ve created with the Rozelle Interchange is to build a second road tunnel under Sydney Harbour.

Engineers at the inquiry into the Rozelle Interchange fiasco have already testified that will only create traffic jams elsewhere on the road network: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112383313109173146

Just one more lane, bro!

@Hello1000 @ylai Yeah, the Dutch have solved this one already. It’s called a bakfiets: https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA?si=jc9mn4E_0SYhG78q

As for cycling in the snow, here’s @notjustbikes on why the Finns can happily cycle in the snow but Canadians can’t: https://youtu.be/Uhx-26GfCBU?si=9OWyiLYq3kgEsfAU

@awelder @jedsetter @nictea @philip @fuck_cars You often hear from Melburnians that it’s the world’s most livable city, and how the CBD is laid out nicely in the Hoddle Grid is laid out compared to inner-city.

And how Melbourne’s inner-suburban tram network means it has much better public transport than Sydney.

And it’s true. Colonial Melbourne, funded by its gold rush, did a much better job at planning than early Sydney.

But after the World Wars, it’s a very different story.

Sydney is at least constrained by Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north, the Royal National Park to the south, and the Blue Mountains to the west.

That means the only places for new sprawl are either northwest past Rouse Hill, or southwest around Campbelltown and Camden.

As a result, there’s a lot more pressure from developers to densify.

Meanwhile, Melbourne just has the Dandenong Ranges to the east and Port Phillip Bay to the south.

As a result, even right now, you have new housing estates past Pakenham, Melton, Wyndham Vale, and Craigieburn.

As for sprawling Australian capitals, I think Perth has definitely been punching above its weight since the 2000s mining boom.

There’s now continuous McMansions sprawl right down the Coast from north of Joondalup to south of Mandurah.

And there’s new subdivisions that are closer to Bunbury than they are to the Perth or Fremantle CBDs.

@nictea @philip @fuck_cars Even the 903 SmartBus only runs a 15 minute timetable during the day, which is less than the minimum 10-minute service busses should be running.

And other services in the area, like the 737 (Croydon to Boronia to Knox to Glen Waverley to Monash Uni) is a 40-minute-plus frequency during most of the day.

And people wonder why more residents in the outer suburbs use public transport…

#Bus #Busses #Melbourne #Planning #UrbanPlanning

@nictea @philip @fuck_cars Pretty much the whole City of Knox (a large chunk of outer-eastern Melbourne) is 1970s and 1980s car-centric suburbia at its worst.

The only rail in the whole area is basically Bayswater and Boronia stations on the Belgrave line. And trains only run every 30 minutes, aside from the morning and evening peak.

Other than that, you have the SmartBus from Ringwood to Frankston, the Rowville SmartBus, and a bunch of infrequent suburban busses.

And the stroads! There’s literally a stroad called High Street Road (which is quite possibly the stroadiest name ever invented).

And all of them — Boronia Rd, Stud Rd, Wellington Rd, Burwood Hwy, Wellington Rd, Dorset Rd — are a nightmare during peak hour.

There’s whole housing estates with detached residential homes where the only practical way to get anything is to drive.

If anyone says Melbourne does planning well, take them out to Knox (you’ll need to drive) and they’ll come away with a different opinion.

#Knox #Melbourne #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #Bayswater #Boronia #Planning

@philip @fuck_cars And a little post-script: It’s now 2024, Waverley Park is now long gone, and the long-promised Rowville railway still hasn’t been built.

Here’s some background info on it from Melbourne’s Public Transport Users Association ( @ptua and @danielbowen ).

https://www.ptua.org.au/myths/rowville/

@fullfathomfive @jedsetter @fuck_cars Really important point.

While it’s open for submissions, it’s worth putting in a submission pointing out where there are oversights the strategy around accessibility, and some of the ways they can be fixed.

And some of those issues (for example, more accessible public transport) will need the City of Sydney to work with external departments and agencies (such as Transport for NSW) to fix.

@alexisdyslexic @fuck_cars Thanks for sharing those, I appreciate it ☺️

It just goes to show how far off the mark Business Sydney is.

@alexisdyslexic @fuck_cars Definitely worth sharing the link ☺️

@Etterra Because I’m not in America, I prefer to use the correct English spelling.

Which, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is tyre: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/tyre

Not to be confused with tire, as in: “I tire of the American misspellings of words” ☺️

@Simplicator @NarrativeBear Our whole economy is geared towards disposable consumerism.

Yeah, we could make sturdy wooden chairs like the ones your grandma had at her dining table for 50-odd years.

Or we could get new plastic chairs every five years or so from IKEA.

The way things are set up, making 10 disposable chairs that last five years is far better for the economy than making one chair that lasts 50.

There are plenty of things that could be user serviceable, repairable, repurposable or upgradable that aren’t because our economy is geared towards disposable consumerism.

Even look at the economic measuring stick we use: GDP.

If using economic activity as the measure of the health of your economy, then it’s far better to manufacture 10 chairs instead of one.

But what if we were to use a different set of economic measurements? For example, the utility we gain from our goods, and many natural resources it takes to achieve that level of utility?

By that measurement, manufacturing 10 chairs over 50 years instead of one for the same utility (sitting down during dinner) is a monumental waste.

@tokenwizard @asklemmy I’m thinking of eventually doing three websites.

One that’s a '90s pastiche (that one), a minimalist personal website that takes some elements of the '90s web but tones them down a notch, and a blog.

@JimmyBigSausage I’m not sure if you’re replying to the right comment here?

@HobbitFoot I’m not yet, but if there’s a good one then I’d be happy to add it…

@neidu2 Done :)