#traffic offfences

[eaglehobo]

Eagle Hobo Chat - Why are young people in Brisbane refusing to drive?

Eagle Hobo ponders:

Why are so many young people in Brisbane not taking up car ownership, or even getting their driving license?

1. They don't have the money. If you are 25 and live in the same bedroom at home you did when you were 10 years old,, then you may not have the money to drive. On the other hand, such living arrangements would free up income to drive. Except you have no income. You just graduated and your degree is useful as wallpaper, or so they say.

2. When your parents took the test, anyone could have passed it. Today it's much harder. With all of those difficult assignments and tests at high school and uni, who wants to sit another one?

3. (The most obvious reason) Radar and strict enforcement today means that kids have grown up knowing their parents grumble about huge fines for minor infractions. They simply don't want to engage in an activity that's so heavily regulated.

Those of you traffic law guys around town shouldn't be too worried There'll be plenty of a infractions and plenty of customers. With more tunnels in Brisbane, and with the continuing paucity of anything that remotely resembles a public transit syste (50 + years since they ripped up the trams! Yay for Brisbane EVER FORWARD!) and an obvious policy to juice the car ownership and use you'll have plenty of work for decades to come. Probably.

Unless everyone decides to just hobo it. This is my stairwell, and this is my street. Take care on the roads out there, and remember to call your wife to tell her you're not dead - it's just another day in Brisbane's "traffic".

-EH