Amykingswinburne’s Weblog

I found that Tuesday night lecture made me very angry. Not because of what was said it was the way it was presented.It came across as anyone who had a large house and lived in the suburbs was bad and anyone who live in small apartment in the city was good.The comparison to London was a little misconceiving in regards to greenhouse gas. Firstly London have a excellent transport system where you leave you house you are in walking distance to a bus stop or train station that can get you anywhere. The bus’s and train’s come every couple of minutes to keep everyone moving unlike here where you can been left waiting for up to 40 minutes.  Also you can get places faster via public transport in London than you can in Melbourne.  My suggestion is this that they multiplex (several stories) all the train station car parks because most car park fill before 7am turning most people off. Add some security for young women and teenagers who can feel unsafe after dark. Lastly add more trains to the timetable. If this works people might see that they can get places faster on public transport.Now my rant about the ‘burbs. I think its wrong to tell a group of young people that living in a large house is greedy. (Especially when we are sitting in a design school in the middle of Prahran.) Firstly most people move to the suburbs to raise there children. Also to feel secure, not have their car stolen or drug dealers hanging around the playground. Look at all the news reports about the violence in the city. Do you really want to live there? Also you wouldn’t have a backyard.We are lucky to live in country with a large amount of land I don’t think we all need like Japan yet. To quote Bono compromise is not a dirty word.