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The Victorian government is opening up car parks near train stations for apartments.

Despite not mandating enough affordable housing, this is a good policy that should be rolled out nationally.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-train-station-car-parks-being-sold-off-for-hundreds-of-new-homes-20241105-p5knze.html

#urbanism #UrbanPlanning #train #trains #transit @fuck_cars #auspol #vicpol #housing

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[-] LovesTha@floss.social 2 points 1 month ago

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars All they need to do is say the winning tender will be determined by number of affordable homes it includes.

(Yes I want them to do more than that, but just thinking of minimal things that would work really well)

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 month ago

That's what we've been doing here in Seattle. We don't have nearly the rail you do, but we just had a major expansion open and while 3 of the new stations do have large car parks, most of the land is reserved for housing. Instead of 6 large car parks we have one garage.

The ironic thing is conservatives are laughing at the rail we built as a "failed plan" because - the car park fills up too fast! Obviously it needed more parking! Our train has failed already because it is too popular. And it's unfair that all these people who choose to live by it get to use it so easily! What about my suburban home?! /s

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