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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

System doing what it was designed to do and has been doing since the day it started. Not news.

Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's funny how we panic about the possibility of gina's one nation being elected to government when neofash turds like this gronk, most of the rest of the liberal party, and historically quite a bit of the labor party keep getting elected on policies to kill queers

abc.net.au

Tasmanian Liberals to have conscience vote on banning conversion practices

Tasmanian Minister Felix Ellis says Liberal MPs will have a conscience vote on the Greens' bill to ban conversion practices in the state — and he'll be "voting no".

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great article that also reveals how ANCAP and the police play a key role in perpetuating deadly narratives: • ANCAP reckons newer and demonstrably deadlier cars are safer because "technology" • Victoria Police reckons pedestrians are often "distracted", which evidence suggests is not a problem

abc.net.au

Researchers who analysed 10,000 crashes say car size does matter

A study of 13 years of crashes in Australia finds a link between car height and risk of pedestrian death, particularly for women and children.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

$2,000,000,000 for road expansions that will make so-called congestion worse and require residents to spend $10,000 a year on car ownership is apparently money well spent. But $100,000,000 a year for a world-class bus network? Nah, can’t afford it.

Labor's pledges include $550 million to add new lanes to the Western Freeway between Melton and Caroline Springs; $494 million to duplicate Somerton Road between Roxburgh Park Drive and Fleetwood Drive in Greenvale; and $350 million to upgrade Hallam Road in Melbourne's south-east.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Come to Australia, pursue your research passions! You’ll work for less than minimum wage for four years, and we won’t guarantee continuing work! Also your loved ones aren’t welcome so you’re going to be pretty fucking lonely lolz” is a lousy proposition for attracting the best and brightest.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The benefits of free/half-price PT fares "skewed towards higher-income earners, with the top 20% of households receiving 2.2x the financial benefit received by the bottom 20%". Said it before, will say it again: free PT is useless if the network doesn't take you where you need to go.

theage.com.au

As Victoria tries to ease the cost of living, high-earners reap the biggest benefits

From free transport to registration rebates, the state government’s attempt to help Victorians is disproportionately benefiting those who need it the least.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Oof Alan Kohler has a YouTube video about how Melbourne made a mistake keeping its trams. This is why we shouldn’t let economists speak in public.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It looks like the Department of Transport and Planning has finally provided high frequency buses to Melbourne’s outer suburbs - not by actually providing high frequency buses, but by labelling lines high frequency when they clearly aren’t.

Image of a PTV map showing “high frequency” services that run every 20 minutes.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Seriously, if the money can be found for Bendigo, Ballarat, or Geelong to build a tram, then money can be found to run their bus networks at useful levels of frequency and/or coordination (which would build the demand case for light rail over time).

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is nothing but a fancy way of trying to cram more and more and more cars through the city. As with every other time we do this, the outcome will be more noise, more particulates, and more traffic violence.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hear me out: the only electric vehicles that should be advertised in a railway station are trains, trams, and buses.

Photo of a large advertisement for a child killing suv at the Melbourne central station escalators

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hahaha „vorsicht mit der hand“ as though it was a cute little whoopsie and he’s not in fact a nazi goon who needs his nose broke

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The passive voice is used once again on a website to absolve the operators of hazardous machinery (car drivers) of any responsibility for their actions! "Driver kills a person, injures two more, on Gungahlin Drive" There! FIFY!

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here's an idea: why not fund PT services that don't cost a generational arm and leg instead of increasing fares 40% above inflation for 40 years to pay for a vanity project dreamed up by some business guys who probably haven't used public transport in 40 years?

theguardian.com

Suburban Rail Loop: Victorian government secretly increased public transport fares to help pay for controversial SRL

Labor put ‘levy on all public transport fares in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria’ since January 2025, auditor general says

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hi @news.abc.net.au Why do you insist on using the passive voice when reporting traffic violence? “Driver kills pedestrian in Hervey Bay” is much clearer.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Victoria's transport planners and decision-makers do not understand the importance of connections. See also: - Munnel station at Arden to maximise land-value uplift, instead of connecting at Kenso/Macaulay; no stop at South Yarra - Countless level crossing removals that reduce rail-bus connectivity

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Apparently things like good quality connections between existing and proposed stations are “unnecessary additions”, as opposed to, you know, one of the fundamental elements of a functional public transport network.

abc.net.au

Victorian premier plans to make $2b saving on Suburban Rail Loop

Underground station interchanges and "complex pedestrian bridges" are among the things to go, according to the state government.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If we can’t afford to build the Suburban Rail Loop with high quality connection facilities (i.e., <50m between platforms and as flat as possible), then we should simply not bother building it at all.

Screenshot from the age. It reads: The immediate savings will be found by scrapping underground station interchanges at Box Hill and Glen Waverley, abolishing a second planned station entrance at Clayton, and ditching pedestrian bridges at Burwood and Cheltenham.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Renters: how common is it for you to have your rent increased like clockwork every 12 months? It seems like it's not entirely unheard of for people to receive infrequent, below inflation increases if they maintain the tenancy.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“The government is warning the opt-out mechanism will be complicated to build, and could take a long time to implement” Okay then just fucken ban them outright.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is a ridiculous idea from the Libs. It will encourage more people to drive, meaning more noise and air pollution and more death and injury. It's not quite as stupid as their 2018 "grade separations for suburban arterial junctions", which was really quite stupid, but gosh it's close.

theage.com.au

Road tolls to be capped at $50 weekly under Coalition commuter plan

The Victorian Liberals are hoping up to $3000 in toll rebates will garner votes from Melbourne commuters and small business owners.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A car was deliberately driven at speed... When [a] car travelling in same direction allegedly approached... The car then clips the man on the legs... Trauma to the person hit by the car... The Greens state MP… did not witness the car incident...

theguardian.com

Victorian police investigate allegation a car drove deliberately at speed towards anti-racism protester

‘Peaceful community rally’ of more than 150 people was walking in Broadmeadows when car travelling in same direction allegedly approached

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reminder: cars are deadly and should be excluded from urban environments. (Also incredible that this happened over three weeks ago and it's only being reported on now)

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Antisocial behaviour in central Footscray.

map of victorian road crash data for central footscray

guess where nobody has been killed or injured by a car

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Katie Hall MP seems to think that the solution to crime and antisocial behaviour in central Footscray is to close the Nicholson St pedestrian mall and “reinvigorate” it as a traffic sewer. Because cars/drivers have never committed crime and/or been antisocial.

I am writing to ask Council to consider the future of Nicholson Street Mall by investigating the reintroduction of vehicle access and through-traffic as part of a broader revitalisation strategy for central Footscray.
When Nicholson Street was closed to vehicles in the early 1970s, it reflected the retail environment of the time.
Footscray was a thriving shopping destination, with major department stores such as the iconic Forges drawing customers from across Melbourne's west. The pedestrian mall was created to strengthen the shopping precinct by encouraging people to spend time in Footscray as suburban shopping centres, like Highpoint, began changing the way we shopped.
More than 50 years later, the retail landscape has changed dramatically. Online shopping and purpose-built commercial centres have transformed consumer behaviour, meaning the challenges facing Footscray today are very different from those the mall was designed to address.
The current model is no longer delivering the outcomes originally intended. Nicholson Street Mall is not generating the level of activity, visitation and business investment needed to support a thriving central Footscray. Concerns about safety, amenity and antisocial behaviour continue to undermine community confidence - despite the considerable efforts of Council, the Future Footscray Group, Victoria Police, community organisations and the Victorian Government - to improve outcomes in the precinct.

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I ask Council to investigate whether reopening Nicholson Street Mall to through traffic, together with reopening the northern end of Albert Street to Barkly Street, could improve accessibility, increase visitation, strengthen passive surveillance, encourage renewed investment and support local businesses in the precinct.
I believe these options deserve to be assessed as part of the next phase of Footscray's revitalisation. I look forward to your response.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

And what's the friggin' bet that the $15,000,000 on car parking will be accounted for as "active transport" spending?

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Blue Mountains City Council wants to reopen this disused railway tunnel as a cycling and walking link. Cool idea! They've spent $4 million on cleaning and lighting, but "need" another $15 million because... ... wait for it... "further funding is needed to build car parking" 🤦

abc.net.au

Calls to permanently open historic tunnel in Sydney's Blue Mountains

The 134-year-old Lapstone Hill Tunnel was used to store munitions in World War II and later became a mushroom farm. Now there are calls to make it a link between two towns in the Lower Blue Mountains.

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Annastea 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ (Anna Na Maus) @annastea-p.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Let's be very clear. What Amnesty have done here isn't just bad for the trans community. This is bad for every single persecuted minority in the world because they have shown that money and threats will remove opposition to persecution. Think about it.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

You'd think that a railway project intended to connect to/from existing railway stations would have resolved the question of how passengers will connect to/from existing and new stations BEFORE you put the friggin' TBMs in the ground, but here we are...

theage.com.au

Secret multibillion-dollar plan to link SRL stations with existing stops

The undisclosed package, tipped to be worth between $4 billion and $6 billion, features some of the most challenging parts of the Suburban Rail Loop project.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Amazing how far myki has come in the last few months.

Photograph of a blue on-board fare payment system from Helsinki

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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"I will say, where was this advice a little earlier, Pauline?" asked one of the deceased victims. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/07/22/p...

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This is an injustice! What are parents to do? It's not like there is some kind of socialised alternative that would provide an education of the same quality without the imposition of massive fees...

Screencap from theage homepage of a headline that reads "Private school families face years of saving and scrimping before kids even begin lessons"

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hear me out: all public on-street parking is arsehole behaviour.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

C’mon Deutsche Bahn, it’s 8:45 on a Sunday, how the hell can everything already be delayed by 20 minutes?

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Schwebe = suspension Bahn = Bahn

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Greetings from picturesque Helsinki, where I’m attending the World Planning Schools Conference.

A photograph of some large concrete blocks at the waterfront of Jätkäsaari

A photograph of some large concrete blocks at the waterfront of Jätkäsaari but also featuring a view of the harbour and a ship

A close up photograph of some large concrete blocks at the waterfront of Jätkäsaari with a precariously positioned concrete slab.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’ve been in Tokyo and I very much enjoyed these passenger information displays from the metro that show how the train will line up with exit/transfer points at the upcoming station.

Photo of a passenger information display from the Tokyo Metro, showing details of the upcoming g stop that include relative location of stairs and escalators and exits and gates.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for Australian children.

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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This is an excellent if scarifying article from @auspoldaily.bsky.social about the international influences that are turning clicks into votes for One Nation. redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/call-it-wh...

redbridgeintel.substack.com

Call It What It Is: Foreign Interference

If a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"I'm legally authorised to operate a car and I plan renewable energy but woe is me I simply cannot handle the complexity of paying for public transport" is exactly the kind of low rent energy I've come to expect from the Greens and their candidates on transport issues of late.

Wright, a former Greens candidate who now works in the renewable energy space, said he previously drove his car or rode his bike most places, but the free transport system had been a revelation.

“It’s just fantastic! And my main problem is, I just can’t organise getting myself a myki card, I lose them all the time, so it’s just a total pain … It’s too much friction,” he said.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

One of the topics for my undergrads’ end-of-semester debate was that Melbourne’s PT should be free. The affirmative went into the process agreeing with this position. They came out the other side convinced of the opposite.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Very useful customer service from the Metro Trains staff member at North Melbourne, who didn’t seem to have any idea about how planned disruptions were affecting services, and then immediately went back to doomscrolling on their phone after answering my question. 0 ⭐️, no further notes.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Research shows that availability of residential parking (via stat minima) increases car ownership. Meanwhile, Melbourne CBD has had a stat maximum for residential parking for years, and there’s still an oversupply. This suggests that excess parking supply is a feature of automobility, not a bug.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ideological echo chamber, eh Sky News? Takes one to know one.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Imagine your railway station design philosophy being “ultra bland so we can cram as much advertising in as humanly possible”.

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Naththan @nathanpittman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If the obnoxious and exceedingly bright video screen adverts in the munnel weren’t enough for you, you’ll be pleased to know that the walkway connecting library to central is now plastered with floor-to-ceiling, ten-metre-long adverts for some superannuation company or another.

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