Successive state and local governments have not planned well for the people or the planet, and have been too influenced by the development lobby, whose main tactic is to gaslight communities with cries of NIMBYism.
If residents knew that governments were working to create low, sympathetic housing, with adequate parking, and good designs, there would be much less anxiety and much more ready compliance to development.
Metro lines were started by Premier Gladys Berejiklian as political flag-waving for the Coalition government, and they are all being operated by foreign companies.