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Sounds like socialism to me

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These come from Twitter so they are probably all sponsored bots from the automotive lobby.

@ThermiteBeGiants part of me is kind of annoyed by the smug replies because if it was e.g. the Boxing Day Test the answer would be “they park on the grass”, causing damage to the public parkland.

@ThermiteBeGiants lol cars have really broken the brains of most of my fellow USians

@ThermiteBeGiants Arrivals tend to be somewhat staggered... It's amazing how much quicker you can get out of such places (Edmonton is my personal experience, but also other Canadian cities) when on foot vs. driving. I've had a ~1km walk and still only been barely behind the car which drove.

@ThermiteBeGiants my partner said it took longer to get out of the stadium than it did to get home.

@ThermiteBeGiants plus you can get absolutely hammered while you are at the stadium.

I mean, we do that here, too; but the drive home is a little spicier

@ThermiteBeGiants @_patmurray at least half of these are people doing the sarcastic version of the post

@ThermiteBeGiants ‘mericans not understanding public transport 🤣

@ThermiteBeGiants I totally see the fascination and weep for the planet!

@ThermiteBeGiants Transit pilling the swifties!

@ThermiteBeGiants America-Centrism is sickening.

Like they can't imagine #PublicTransport to work and #Cars not being default!

@ThermiteBeGiants the americans & canadians who take the bus and/or tram to events don’t often complain about lack of parking.

@ThermiteBeGiants the funny part is that Melbourne (and most Australian cities) are not really known for amazing public transport.

@ThermiteBeGiants Thanks for the alt text! Small suggestion though: Currently it mentions that there are several posts by presumably Americans asking about the parking, but it doesn't say that each of them is met by someone from Melbourne explaining that there's public transport etc.

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it's even more insane considering the colonisation of the new wold would not have been possible without the public transportation by train
even political rallies were done by train way into the 20th century

@ThermiteBeGiants US-ians are so warped.

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@ThermiteBeGiants the land of the free 😬

@ThermiteBeGiants @BenRiceM Sorry, Americans can’t imagine life without cars. Lived 5 years in Switzerland, just couldn’t get used to timing our travel to the tram so drove to work every day. It’s just what we’re used to 🙁

@ThermiteBeGiants I'm still waiting for Burning Man (where there's a railway station on a line only used by freight trains) to cop on that they could hire 3 or 4 trains and bring the whole crowd to the event
#BurningMan #Trains

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Why on hell is nobody telling them
The truth, that the whole stadium has no seats, but parking slots where you arrive via the underground highway?

@ThermiteBeGiants ha. I reckon some of those were dorothy dixers. if only we could replicate the MCGs lack of parking lots for the places where people all go every week or more often, ie suburban shopping malls etc. Then we could be really smug.

@ThermiteBeGiants Pure Magic.

@ThermiteBeGiants Don't tell them about the Dutch F1 GP at Zandvoort.

Most people come by bike.

@ThermiteBeGiants And here's that link to TikTok where you can see the aerial view and hear Taylor talking to the crowd.
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSF6gW6VU

@ThermiteBeGiants to be fair there is some parking though nowhere close to the scale they have in the US

@ThermiteBeGiants I thought this NPR podcast on Americans and parking was also fascinating https://feeds.npr.org/510355/podcast.xml

@ThermiteBeGiants @GreenSkyOverMe 🙈🙈🙈

@ThermiteBeGiants Autoerotica strikes again 😂

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It's mostly the suburban and rural types. Residents of Chicago, New York City, Seattle, and Boston (that's millions of people) are quite familiar with public transportation.
I haven't driven in over a decade.

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I can't speak for other countries but sports stadia and other venues in the uk are increasingly like the US.

@ThermiteBeGiants In the San Francisco region, they built Levi's Stadium (American-rules football) at the intersection of a tram line and a train line, claiming that this would help traffic, forgetting to check that the entire daily system capacity of both of those combined would not be enough to fill the stadium, let alone to empty it quickly in the evening. In truth, they wanted to hijack the train station's parking lot when there are events, so they wouldn't have to build their own.

@ThermiteBeGiants @XaiaX it’s the saddest shit ever. Public transport being super shitty to non existent except for the few oldest cities, where it’s frequently neglected in favor of cars anyway, is baked into the USian experience. We don’t even see it. I lived in BsAs for a bit and that was the eye opener for me. In Houston, a 15 minute drive by bus turns into an hour and 25 minutes. We kind of have limited light rail, bizs always fighting against expansion fearing lost business construction.

@ThermiteBeGiants those trains full of Swifties must have been so wholesome! :)

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@ThermiteBeGiants lol 😂 As a european I can relate to that.

@ThermiteBeGiants I mean, it's Australia so the cars parked just fell of the Earth, because the anti-grav engine in Aussie cars stop once the engine is turned off.

@ThermiteBeGiants, but where did Taylor Swift park her jet?!

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I love the reactions.

But seriously.....I wish there where more trains here in the States. The few times I been overseas. I love the fact I could just, take trams, trains, or just walk. Wayyyyyy more relaxing than well.....driving around here.

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