Looks like a normal, perfectly good road. Sincerely, a European.
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I'm Australian, and the photo clearly showing that you can park a car and get two cars past one another tells me that these "narrow streets" are substantially wider than all the normal streets in my vicinity.
I suspect this is more of a stroad (and planning) problem than an actual narrow street problem.
Japan has car-supporting streets narrower than this and the residents have not much complaints, they just put one-way road signs and use smaller cars or bikes and everything just fits. Residents should've gotten a smaller car before moving in when they saw the size of the road.
Wow, that's some terminal right-wing privatization going on there. Government not only completely shirking its responsibility to build a public street, but even abdicating its authority to ensure that the developers it delegated the job to did it properly.
"However, council cannot force landowners to develop their property."
Asked if council could force developers to build two sides of a street, the spokesman said it could not.
Motherfucker, what part of "eminent domain" do you not understand?! Building a public street is exactly what that power is for!
That said, everyone involved also deserves a bitch-slap for their failure to comprehend the concept of one-way traffic circulation.
Exactly
Idiots buy overpriced apartments from predators and then complain they are shit quality.
That's the only kind of apartment we make!
I was all ready to rant about the problem of new developments being built before public transport infrastructure, but I checked the map and there are two railway lines in the vicinity!
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12079848#map=14/-33.6923/150.8920
...that said, there is a distinct lack of cycle/pedestrian infrastructure and the style of vehicle traffic makes it hostile.
Of course, the best solution to that is limiting car traffic to a single lane, no on-street parking, and a 20km/h speed limit.
"I've got in two fights before"
Excuse me? Over what, having to yield for 10 seconds to someone else? Fucking children.
Try living in an older section of my city, where all residential roads are all effectively narrower than these NIMBY childcare center candidates are whining about. Forget getting in a fight, yielding and learning how to negotiate with cars, bikes, peds, and muni vehicles is called life. If you get upset about it here you're clearly not a native to city life, and it shows.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bizarre planning laws are requiring developers to build "absurd" half-width streets in Western Sydney, with local councils and the state government blaming each other for allowing it.
But the laws allowing developers to build public roads around new housing projects have failed to account for situations where neighbouring landowners do not want to sell.
In one street in the suburb of Tallawong, hundreds of people living in four six-storey apartment complexes have been squeezing two-way traffic down a one-lane road for more than three years.
Warren Kirby, the Member for Riverstone, said poorly constructed government planning controls were allowing developers to build unsatisfactory communities in Sydney's west.
Vineet Gambhir, who moved into his apartment off Ayla Street eight months ago, said trying to navigate oncoming traffic in peak hour had not been a good experience.
Adam Leto, chief executive of the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue, has called for better planning laws as the region rapidly expands.
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Clearly an "issue" which would be very obvious when prospective tenants view the buildings, so they should have all foreseen the issue and considered alternative transportation methods (or places to live) before moving in.
It is pretty funny that developers are being allowed to literally build half of a street, though.
Residences in new developments are often sold before they are built
Fair point. I was imagining renters.