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The age of suburbia : Comments
By Ross Elliott, published 5/1/2021Mr. Covid has been the best city and regional planner Australia has ever had. The suburbs will shine and regions will grow.
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Decentralisation needs the rollout of rapid rail and every boy and his dog knows it! And no better time to do it as an adjunct to a more rapid recovery.
What we should have is a VLT. A VLT would allow a commute from Sydney CBD to Melbourne CBD and or, Brisbane CBD and several points in between! Or all of the above! Would allow several new cities to grow, prosper and spread! The entire project could be self-funded over time by the resumption of a ten-mile-wide corridor and the subsequent rezoning of areas around station stops!
Some temporary debt would need to be carried but completely offset by the issue of thirty-year, self-terminating, tax-free, government issue, bonds!
Affected landholders could be compensated with the transfer of title of some urban blocks? Land in between the new cities could become the megawatt solar farms Or MSR thorium facilities, that would power them, their desal plants and the VLT!
A project this large would require every available able-bodied and mentally able to be employed as full-time employees! And result in a recovery of epic proportions the envy of the world!
Will we do it? No way Hosa! Corrupt pollies and their handlers will never ever allow it! So bring on Great Depression mark two instead! Glad I'm old and not here too much longer!
If I were young and saddled with our administrations? Would probably blow my brains out than allow my fate and that of this nation to be left in their hands! And their trickle-down ideologies! Along with their me first and foremost, reelection agendas!
Alan B.