Cars

I can’t quite explain why Sydney’s roads annoy me so much. Let me workshop this…

Cars are supposed to be the most comfortable and effortless way to get from here to there. They have allowed the suburbs to exist. Here in Australia their use is controlled to ridiculous extremes to prevent accidents. Cars are cheap and getting cheaper in real terms as our economy grows and productivity improves. The density of cars is also increasing due to urban infill, ironically driven by traffic congestion issues. There is now a car for everything and everyone; about half the kids even get lifts to school. There had been no serious investment in public transport to alleviate the issue; everyone wants public transport but so that others can travel on it and thus the roads will be less congested for them.

It’s a perfect storm of self-centeredness. And everyone is slowly going mad in it.