There’s some kind of anti-population ponzi insurgency underway at The Age. Following its recent “special investigation” into Victoria’s disastrous growth model (which consisted of reading MB) The Age polled readers about their view of living standards. The blowback is as predictable as it is angry:
“I worked in the city centre for 31 years, travelling by car from the north-east for all of that time. Travel congestion and the resulting travel time deteriorated rapidly over the last 5 years, so much so when the chance recently came to grab a redundancy I took it despite being only 52.”
“Melbourne was once a vibrant and enjoyable city with (mostly) infrastructure to match. It is now Hell on Earth – if you can actually get around it without being stuck in traffic for hours on end”
“Over the past 10 years Singapore has built so many extra train stations and lines. Melbourne struggled so many years to add anything”
“Traffic on the roads makes driving intolerable in places which previously were quiet suburban streets.”
“I live in Melbourne’s north. 300,000 more people and not one road duplicated…No planning, no thought by government and the end result is gridlock.”
“A trip between Essendon and Fairfield use to take 20 minutes max a few years ago. Now it takes around 30 on a good day. Saturday’s between 40-50 sometimes!”
“There is insufficient public transport to move people efficiently around the city”
“Yesterday I left South Melbourne at 4pm to drive to the airport. It was gridlocked going there AND returning. The trip took 2 hours.”
“From overcrowded trams to clogged arterial roads, the logistics of getting around have become a real headache.”
“The volume of traffic on Melbourne roads has increased dramatically in the last 10 years. Every car journey now seems to take twice as long.”
“Drive times are up by 20 -25 percent . Peak hour goes for hours!”
“I have been living in bayside for 20 years. For me the most noticeable problem and decline in liveability has been the lack of car parking spaces at train stations.”
“Melbourne needs more public transport running more often, to keep up with the growing population.”
“Crowding on public transport has become commonplace. It is now rare to get a seat for my whole daily train 40 minute commute”
“The tram stop is constantly full from 06:30 to 09:30 each morning, and most trams are full by the time they arrive in Richmond.”
“It’s not just our freeways but our arterial roads, main roads and local streets that are bursting at the seams.”
“Nowadays I frequently decide not to go out because of the appalling traffic congestion. Whoever is doing the rating of liveability in cities around the world and marking Melbourne highly obviously does not live here”
“My commute into the CBD is a nightmare! 6am on the train and I can’t get a seat – going. We need to reduce immigration now!”
It goes on and on and on. Melbourne is a global shining beacon of multi-cultural success but it is being turned on itself by a level of immigration that has no economic reason or justification beyond pumping house prices and dropping wages.
Keeping pushing it and the multi-cultural consensus will rupture.
