To some extent even the light autonomy is causing a shift to drive by wire, so to some extent when the ‘steering wheel’ is essentially a controller, RHD vs LHD isn’t quite as much of a deal.
We should be saved by Toyota slowly beginning making actual EVs rather than their failed bet on Hydrogen, with the resulting RHD JDM cars.
Melbourne’s newest freeway opened to traffic this afternoon. The 9km Mordialloc Freeway between Springvale Road at Edithvale and Dingley Bypass at Clayton in the city’s southeast is the extension of Mornington Peninsula Freeway, and has been on the plan for decades.
Half a story; they should’ve asked how much raising the bridge would cost and therefore how quickly such an investment would be paid off, including calculating the huge, longer-term disruption of such construction work (vs the occasional 45 minutes).
I do think there are too many toll roads in the Sydney region, like most of Sydney Orbital Network (except Gore Hill Freeway, Cahill Expressway and a section of Eastern Distributor, which are toll-free).
If governments/people want to reduce urban speed limits the least they can do is raise them on highways; 110 km/h is pathetically slow for a country with such distances between major population centres.
A lot of them are not good enough for speeds above 110… other than motorways like the Hume and Pacific between Sydney and Melb/Bris. They could be 120 or even 130 km/h in parts.