Peter Ross wrote:
Just wonder why we still build, sell and buy cars.
Because zoning laws ensure places you want to go aren't within walking distance, because our cities were built when cars were The Future! and aren't geared for anything else, because the idiotic Australian Dream of owning a quarter acre inhibits denser housing, &c &c (No citations because the above is empty rhetoric; any factual accuracy is a pure fluke.) Random quote I came across recently: The Victorian Government has been continuously blocked from increasing density in existing suburban areas, such as the, City of Boroondara by "residents' groups" who continuously object to new medium-density developments, greatly hindering the progress of the blueprint.^[12] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_2030 -- twb, who doesn't and has never owned an automobile