Naththan
@nathanpittman.bsky.social
PhD candidate, writing about the art of government of transport planning: maps as manifestations of power, models as inseparable from plans, questions of what planning is as questions of what it should be, and good planners as bad planners.
And what's the friggin' bet that the $15,000,000 on car parking will be accounted for as "active transport" spending?
Naththan@nathanpittman.bsky.social · 19h agoBlue Mountains City Council wants to reopen this disused railway tunnel as a cycling and walking link. Cool idea! They've spent $4 million on cleaning and lighting, but "need" another $15 million because... ... wait for it... "further funding is needed to build car parking" 🤦
Blue Mountains City Council wants to reopen this disused railway tunnel as a cycling and walking link. Cool idea! They've spent $4 million on cleaning and lighting, but "need" another $15 million because... ... wait for it... "further funding is needed to build car parking" 🤦
Calls to permanently open historic tunnel in Sydney's Blue Mountains
The 134-year-old Lapstone Hill Tunnel was used to store munitions in World War II and later became a mushroom farm. Now there are calls to make it a link between two towns in the Lower Blue Mountains.
abc.net.au
Let's be very clear. What Amnesty have done here isn't just bad for the trans community. This is bad for every single persecuted minority in the world because they have shown that money and threats will remove opposition to persecution. Think about it.
You'd think that a railway project intended to connect to/from existing railway stations would have resolved the question of how passengers will connect to/from existing and new stations BEFORE you put the friggin' TBMs in the ground, but here we are...
Secret multibillion-dollar plan to link SRL stations with existing stops
The undisclosed package, tipped to be worth between $4 billion and $6 billion, features some of the most challenging parts of the Suburban Rail Loop project.
theage.com.au
"I will say, where was this advice a little earlier, Pauline?" asked one of the deceased victims. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/07/22/p...
This is an injustice! What are parents to do? It's not like there is some kind of socialised alternative that would provide an education of the same quality without the imposition of massive fees...
Hear me out: all public on-street parking is arsehole behaviour.
The Cathy Wilcox@cathywilcox.bsky.social · 3w agoGot chatting to one of the old blokes at my dad’s village and he gave me a few of these for use in the future.
C’mon Deutsche Bahn, it’s 8:45 on a Sunday, how the hell can everything already be delayed by 20 minutes?
Greetings from picturesque Helsinki, where I’m attending the World Planning Schools Conference.
I’ve been in Tokyo and I very much enjoyed these passenger information displays from the metro that show how the train will line up with exit/transfer points at the upcoming station.
Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for Australian children.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks .. “When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.” apnews.com/article/nvid...
This is an excellent if scarifying article from @auspoldaily.bsky.social about the international influences that are turning clicks into votes for One Nation. redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/call-it-wh...
Call It What It Is: Foreign Interference
If a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did.
redbridgeintel.substack.com
Today I learned that apparently yank tanks pay twice as much to use Melbourne's toll roads. Bourman is right - this is an injustice! We should be charging them five or six times as much.
These polluting behemoths pay more on toll roads than cars. A campaign says that’s unfair
The increasing popularity of giant utes is prompting a parliamentary inquiry to consider reducing the amount they are charged to use Melbourne’s toll roads.
theage.com.au
"I'm legally authorised to operate a car and I plan renewable energy but woe is me I simply cannot handle the complexity of paying for public transport" is exactly the kind of low rent energy I've come to expect from the Greens and their candidates on transport issues of late.
One of the topics for my undergrads’ end-of-semester debate was that Melbourne’s PT should be free. The affirmative went into the process agreeing with this position. They came out the other side convinced of the opposite.
Daniel Bowen@danielbowen.au · 2mo agoI don't view permanent free fares to be a top priority for Victoria. Good to have the debate though. But these vocal proponents are making stuff up. There was no Free Tram Zone expansion. There is no Joint Standing Committee on PT. How much more of their site is fictional? www.freept.org.au/news/
Very useful customer service from the Metro Trains staff member at North Melbourne, who didn’t seem to have any idea about how planned disruptions were affecting services, and then immediately went back to doomscrolling on their phone after answering my question. 0 ⭐️, no further notes.
Research shows that availability of residential parking (via stat minima) increases car ownership. Meanwhile, Melbourne CBD has had a stat maximum for residential parking for years, and there’s still an oversupply. This suggests that excess parking supply is a feature of automobility, not a bug.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 3mo agoIdeological echo chamber, eh Sky News? Takes one to know one.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3mo agoSky Australia also upset.
Imagine your railway station design philosophy being “ultra bland so we can cram as much advertising in as humanly possible”.
Naththan@nathanpittman.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf the obnoxious and exceedingly bright video screen adverts in the munnel weren’t enough for you, you’ll be pleased to know that the walkway connecting library to central is now plastered with floor-to-ceiling, ten-metre-long adverts for some superannuation company or another.
If the obnoxious and exceedingly bright video screen adverts in the munnel weren’t enough for you, you’ll be pleased to know that the walkway connecting library to central is now plastered with floor-to-ceiling, ten-metre-long adverts for some superannuation company or another.
Just called NSW TrainLink to book a bed on the overnight XPT for about a month from now; both nights I could have travelled have **already** sold out. It would be a shame if the new intercity trains NSW has purchased were to do away with this service. It seems popular!
apparently knowledge institutions that employ thousands of experts on racism, colonialism, and geopolitics did not conform to a specific form of words acceptable to this one tiny powerful lobby group who provide cover for a livestreamed genocide. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Entire university sector accused of antisemitism failure
The special envoy on antisemitism has found not a single Australian university has met its requirements for adopting a definition of antisemitism.
abc.net.au
Poor diddums doesn’t get to own a twentieth investment slum and might have to wait another year before owning a second Porsche boo fucking hoo
Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe case studies hey
not content with threatening bike riders' lives on main roads, melbourne's car drivers have now discovered that they can "hack" their commute by driving on priority bike routes in the back streets
