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I personally think our cities are ludicrously spread-out and we need to massively improve laws surrounding strata management to make apartment living better, and build for public transport, walking and cycling, and not cars as personal daily transport.
The data is in, traffic will never be solved without viable alternatives to driving.
You shouldn't need to drive literal hours to make it across a city.
The problem here is density and transportation. 3M people is nothing, just that with cars it becomes unmanageable.
Though, I am not personally knowledgeable about Perth, another centre may be warranted!
Agreed, although apartment living isn't the only option, and while it has its place Australians do it wrong, in my opinion anyway.
Problem is, a city like that is hard to impossible to do to the scale required, in the time required. With so much property already parcelled up and used for private purposes, already having been built on, not the least the cultural phenomenon that drives the need for detached housing.
For example terraced housing, like in the UK, would probably improve things massively, while still maintaining that front door and garden concept that seems very popular.
Yeah you make very good points. I do hope we can shift the culture to preferring walkable/bike-able/public transport oriented cities.