Turn the Snowy Mountains national park into a massive car park

Sydney motorist: "Every time we drive up I'm always like, 'They need to expand the car park.'"

"Roads to the ski resorts are managed by Transport for NSW but the car parks, which are ON national park land, are managed by the resorts themselves. There's more than 6,000 car parking spaces across the ski fields in the Snowy Mountains."

"National parks are not supposed to be full of cars.We don't want to be polluting streams and waterways with runoff from car parks. The ecology and the environment is more important than us going skiing."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/car-parking-issue-nsw-snowy-mountains-ski-fields/105616840
#climate #ClimateBreakdown #cars #congestion #pollution #cryosphere #NationalParks #biodiversity #habitat #carparks #skiing #NSW #TheSnowies #MobileSprawl #FossilFuels

Bumper snow season sparks car parking debate in NSW alps

Car parks at NSW ski fields have reached capacity several times this winter leading to road closures, prompting debate as to how best manage traffic congestion on the slopes.

ABC News

Australians prefer to go overseas again in record numbers, but no-one wants to come here...

The majority fly overseas to cheap locations in 'Asia' that are known for human rights abuses (Indonesia). Five Eyes countries (NZ, US, UK) are the other visited locations where communicating is made easy.

"While record numbers of Aussies are spending their money abroad, that spending is not being balanced out with international holidaymakers spending here."

Why do people from overseas not want to
- visit the bleached Great Barrier Reef
- experience world heritage sites under threat
- watch collapsing ecosystems
- witness biodiversity made extinct
- breathe mega fires and smoke
- see the large scars in logged forests
- admire the big holes left from mining

They could just enjoy the Big Things: Big houses, big cars, big roads, the big banana, the big pineapple and so much more.

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Australians travelling overseas again in record numbers despite the cost-of-living crisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-16/travel-tourism-australia-holiday-cost-of-living/104337072
Environmental issues in Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Australia
Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, 2024
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/indonesia
The commercial and regional imagery of big things: Establishing a foundation for the study of oversized roadside landmarks
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13591835231225350
#tourism #holiday #travelling #travel #FossilFuels #mobility #MobileSprawl #BigThings #landmarks #LoggingImpacts #Australia #ecosystems #extinction #biodiversity

Australians travelling overseas again in record numbers despite the cost-of-living crisis

Recent data shows a 32 per cent rise in outbound travel in the year to June, compared to the previous year, with Australians taking more than 11 million trips.

ABC News
Aurora chasers flattened #thrombolites
"A footprint going into the top of the thrombolite can be about 500 years of damage."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-22/lake-clifton-thrombolites-aurora-australis/103993408
#Biodiversity #Conservation #footprint #MobileSprawl
Perth aurora chaser joins fight to protect Lake Clifton thrombolites after walking on ancient fossil site

When Wesley Lamont set up his camera to capture the aurora australis, he had no idea he was trampling on a fragile ecosystem and potentially causing decades of damage.

ABC News
As over-tourism grows, are there places on Earth we should be barred from visiting?

Humans are wreaking havoc on our most cherished places and tourism is a significant and growing contributor to the chaos, writes Linton Besser.

ABC News

The end of the road trip?

The culture of 'the drive' requires sisyphean road maintenance, especially in a climate emergency.

Mobile sprawl as a form of 'recreation' eliminates the landscape. It is the annihilation of space and time. Motorists want to get from their door to the spectacle in the fastest way possible. The 'in-between space' viewed through the car window vanishes.

The pleasure cruise from A to B does not just degrade the landscape, but also eradicates possibilities of a livable planet. The overuse by the masses in their fossil fuel boxes makes the hillsides crumble, leads to landslides and erosion. After flash flooding, drought and heatwaves the roads have to be rebuilt over and over again.

Here are three cases of 'scenic drives':
California, Victoria and NSW

Extreme weather is changing California. These road trips show how
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/28/climate-extremes-california-road-trip

Climate Risk : The Path Ahead for the Great Ocean Road
Unsustainable Tourism
https://www.earlywarningnetwork.com.au/news/the-path-ahead-for-the-great-ocean-road

Waterfall Way scenic drive, NSW
https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/driving-routes/waterfall-way-scenic-drive
Why is the road called Waterfall Way ?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-15/waterfall-way-in-dorrigo-coffs-harbour-wet-weather-nsw/12986532

#TheDrive #Cars #roads #ScenicDrive #vehicles #MobileSprawl #tourism #FossilFuels #hazards #RoadTrips #culture #So50s #BigAuto #MobilityDesign #dromology #speed #GreatOceanRoad #WaterfallWay #Dorrigo #NSW #GlenifferRoad #landscapes #erosion #RockFall #FlashFlooding #ClimateCrisis

Extreme weather is changing California. These road trips show how

In a year of historic storms, drought and the aftermath of wildfires, a Guardian reporter hit the road to see how three popular routes are faring

The Guardian
70 years after the first ascent of Everest, the impact of mass mountaineering must be confronted

Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay conquered Everest/Chomolungma in 1953, commercial mass mountaineering has put unsustainable pressure on unique environments and communities.

The Conversation