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   dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 20:01:21 JST dragestil

   What's the point of making national parks only accessible to cars? Looking at the Organ Pipes National Park #melbourne

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 20:01:20 JST 翠星石

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     @dragestil I'm not sure, but as far as I can tell, a bunch of land was allocated to national parks at random in Australia and as a result, many of national parks are only feasible to reach via road.
     
     Wikipedia notes that it's situated in a deep gorge, which makes putting a train line in expensive and I'm not sure if the river is suitable for ferries.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 20:59:54 JST 翠星石

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     @dragestil That depends how far the national park is from a town or train station really - more than 5 km would be a bit too far, as that would add >10km to any national park walks.
     
     Putting a walkway and cycle path next to the road shouldn't be too difficult even so - that would really only consist of making the road a bit wider (or the lanes a bit narrower) and placing the road barriers to separate the path.
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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 20:59:55 JST dragestil

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     @Suiseiseki OK, but how about walking / cycling?