Sunk cost fallacy.

They are paying money to own these vehicles, therefore they must use these vehicles for everything possible.

For these people, riding public transport is more abhorrent than having their car broken into, or to receive a parking fine for parking in someone else’s rightful carpark.

The problem with Canberra is that it has a large amount of sprawl, but at least they seem to be heading in the right direction. They also have a nice cycle network, although it seems from a distance to be more recreational than used for transport.

Shame those areas are super expensive.

Yeah unfortunately that will tend to happen when it's only done haphazardly. Surprise surprise, people like living in well-defined urban spaces! And will pay to do it!

Plus, I'm guessing that there may have been better public transport and cycling infrastructure, but a lot of the time it's probably still low-density single-family homes, rather than increasing to medium density row houses and apartments? That's obviously also going to be a big driver of cost.

But they havnt fucking replaced the car transport with a feasable alternative. The tram goes between nothing and fuck all, busses come every half hour if ur lucky. So if ur like the 99% of people in canberra and dont live in the friggin city its at least an hour commute by public transport if ur area even has public transport. Or u could drive and do it in 10mins. In theory ita great in practice its a complete clusterfuck much like everything the socialists try and implement.