I watched an interesting video explaining how to transport 96k people for the show.
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Wow, they are dumb. Obviously the stadium just goes to every ticket-holder’s address, picks them up and drops them off after the event.
Ok. I get the public transportation thing, but, like, how do the rich/wealthy get to concerts and sporting events? Do they ride the rails with the plebes? If they do, I don't believe it.
Rich enough people don’t need to worry because they get dropped off and picked up by their driver.
They say that a developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.
And in Australia, when it comes to sporting events at least, that's the case. Not the uber wealthy perhaps. I'm guessing @[email protected] is correct on that front. But those making 6 or low 7 figures are very likely to take public transport to the sporting ground. It's kind of just the done thing.
The irony being—and maybe Melbourne doesn't do this, but my city of Brisbane does—public transport to these events is free. Just wave your ticket and get on any bus or train for a few hours before or after the event.
They have their driver drop them off?
There's probably a small underground parking lot.
Ya, that was my initial thought. Still curious though. How does the king of Australia go to Tay-Tay's concert if he wants to?
The King of Australia doesn't give two shits about Australia. If he wants to go to Tay-Tay's concert he goes to Wembley Stadium.
I went to the Melbourne Cricket Grounds once during the Boxing Day Test Match. Public transportation was a breeze and a stroll through the surrounding parks was lovely.
I got a Team Australia sombrero in the stadium as a silly souvenir and a stunningly beautiful Australian woman said, “I like your Mexico hat!” 10/10 experience. Would take public transport to MCG again.
Melbourne public transportation is great.
They do a huge amount of free trams to the F1 as well when that's on.
Transport here does have it's... Interesting moments too. I used to ride a line often frequented by an older Indian woman... Who would get on the team and start screaming at anyone on their cellphone because it was rude. Fun times.
Yeah sure, it's nice, but not every country can afford a mass ride-in-a-kangaroo-pouch transit system.
The US absolutely can afford it, reduce military spending by 10% That is about 80 billion usd, with 80 billion usd they sure as hell can afford to build some public transport
Sorry but you have clearly never imported and raised giant kangaroos for mass transit. $80 billion is nothing to them. Nothing.
Government has started subsidising our Rooways ever since the alert on Dropbears was reduced (their population has been decimated by bushfires and land clearing).
I'm shocked other countries don't do it, it's a cheap and effective method of transport, and the fuckers are everywhere!
When I visited Australia, my only complaint was that at the beach, someone told us not to step on blue snails because they’ll kill you. Like, come on. I’m not somebody who steps on snails of any color on purpose. How am I supposed to avoid the murder snails?
good news is that it looks like there's a neighborhood in the top left that could be demolished to make room for parking and additional lanes
I mean just look at all that disgusting green around it 🤢
My people can't understand that a car is not required to live.
I'd argue that for most of the US it is necessary to have a car. We just have adequate public transport. I'd much prefer that we did, but currently we do not. I suspect one could take an aerial photo of many arenas/stadiums located in densely populated cities in the US and they do not have much parking either.
Also to be fair, we in Australia are far from being some car free utopia either.
We have heaps of car dependant urban sprawl in our major cities where the vast majority of us live. We are also adding more of this sprawl all the time.
On the plus side most of our state capital cities have got decent heavy rail networks which you can park at stations and ride.
I just bought an e-trike. ^_^
They made everything so far away!
Reminds me of that TNG episode where one planet has gotten the other planet addicted to a drug only they have, so they can have the addict planet make everything for them while they sit on their asses and do nothing except sell them that drug.
Just replace the drug in that episode with oil and honestly it's pretty accurate for our world now.
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