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Melbournian for a more liveable city & better streets for living. Prioritise safer infrastructure for cycle, PT, and walking. linktr.ee/liveable_melb

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Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Feb 20

Beyond the noise, pollution, congestion, carbrain, and car dependency, here's driver entitlement and arrogance encroaching on what little space left for footpaths and bike lanes. Cars ruin cities.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 1d

Another unbelievable tragedy, we've been so desensitised to road violence that we aren't rioting on our streets to demand safer streets from cars and trucks.

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Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 1d

Car fire 🔥 near Richmond station. Won't make the news unless it involves an ebike. Hypocrisy at its finest.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 4d

Must not be enough hi-viz /s

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 4d

Must be those ebikes @victoriapolice. How's the crackdown going? 45 fatalities on Victorian roads since the "crackdown" started 2 months ago.

Also, keep an eye out!?! What kind of weak response is this. If a single postie was hit by an ebike, you'd be calling for a complete ban and crackdown.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 11d

Why does the recycling station get protective bollards and not bike lanes?

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Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine being this impatient, you're willing to kill someone over a few seconds.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 13d

So you're telling me *infrastructure* is the way to improve safety? Shocking I tell you. Now apply this for people walking and cycling too.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 25d

Grim. Tragic. Angry. If this is yet another $2,000 fine for killing a person (see www.threads.com/@liveable_me...), I'd truly lost faith in humanity.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · 28d

Ditto. We have so little 'third space' in our city. Places you can just exists without the expectations of buying something. Here real estate is a speculative asset to make money off and it shows.

Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 28d

Paris has so much public outdoor space to hang out in. Public squares and parks with heaps of seating. Near me, all green space is sports ovals and a couple of crappy playgrounds. And that’s more than loads of suburbs. This only works if you care about community not just property.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 28d

In Paris it’s normal to raise a family in a three-bedroom apartment. Why aren’t we building more in Australia?

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Sep 9

Some people complain when bikes take up space on a train, yet they don’t seem bothered by cars and trucks clogging up the middle of the CBD and taking up far more room

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Running red lights, getting more and more egregious each day.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Sep 4

21 deaths in 30 days in Victoria.

Still waiting for some action beyond thoughts and prayers and best we can do is blame ebikes I guess.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Sep 3

17 people have died in Victorian streets in the last month since Victoria police blitz on ebikes.

Sure we're targetting the right thing?

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

$2000 fine for killing a schoolboy.

Outrage: 0
Bills introduced to curb 'dangerous' vehicle or driving: 0
Safety blitz launched by police: 0
Number of news outlet running opinion pieces on how dangerous SUVs are: 0

Fined $2000 for schoolboy’s death: Grieving dad’s fury as killer walks free

The father of a schoolboy mowed down by an out-of-control driver made an emotional plea after his son’s killer walked free from court.

www.theage.com.au

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 30

let me know when ebikes can cause that kind of death and destruction we're seeing daily from cars on, not that 'registration' has made cars any safer. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Coroner calls for e-bikes to be registered as motorcycles

Coroner Audrey Jamieson said Nitin Haldipur Prabhu’s death was a tragic reminder of the importance for greater regulations of e-bikes.

www.theage.com.au

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Another hit and run from reckless drivers, while vicpol continues their month-long crackdown on ebikes, to-be-banned from trains for being 'too dangerous'. Thoughts and prayers are cheap, taking action is expensive.

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Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Brilliant, exciting new station with so much opportunities. This area could be developed into our own version of what SOHO is to London.

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Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Brilliant, exciting new station with so much opportunities. This area could be developed into our own version of what SOHO is to London.

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 29

Another tragic death from another hit and run driver right in front of wife and son. Enough deaths on our streets from cars, crackdown on mobile phone use, speeding, reckless and dangerous driving overdue

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 28

There has been 13 road fatalities in Victoria alone since vicpol started their crackdown on ebikes 3 weeks ago. Wanna take a guess what % of those are caused by ebikes? Have we just gone completely blind, deaf, and numb to the deaths and dangerous from cars?

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 28

Those dangerous ebikes, no wonder vicpol is spending time and resources cracking down on them /s

Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anything other than creating safe cycling and walking infrastructure, and providing frequent and safe public transport. This is some American-level of car dependency dystopian future.

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Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 25

When do we say enough is enough?

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Liveable Melbourne @liveablemelb.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Another tragic death in Coburg, police searching for a SUV. It's high time we stopped accepting these deaths as an unavoidable fact and start cracking down on dangerous drivers and vehicles.