Also, I would not bet that taking public transport home from an event in Australia takes longer than driving home from a large event in the US. You have no idea what the traffic congestion is like. It can take half an hour to an hour just to get out of the PARKING LOT if it's a really big event, and then of course the streets are jammed so everything is going slow. If you're lucky, a) the event is at a space right near a freeway entrance and b) there isn't another event nearby getting out at the same time. But even then, it's not quick or easy.
And sure, there's congestion on public transit, too, after an event, but if you have enough capacity (and it sounds like Australia tends to) you can compensate for that by just having more trains/trams/busses. There is a hard practical limit to how many lanes of traffic you can have exiting a parking lot, and how many cars can pass through the streets around the venue in an hour.
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Also, I would not bet that taking public transport home from an event in Australia takes longer than driving home from a large event in the US. You have no idea what the traffic congestion is like. It can take half an hour to an hour just to get out of the PARKING LOT if it's a really big event, and then of course the streets are jammed so everything is going slow. If you're lucky, a) the event is at a space right near a freeway entrance and b) there isn't another event nearby getting out at the same time. But even then, it's not quick or easy.
And sure, there's congestion on public transit, too, after an event, but if you have enough capacity (and it sounds like Australia tends to) you can compensate for that by just having more trains/trams/busses. There is a hard practical limit to how many lanes of traffic you can have exiting a parking lot, and how many cars can pass through the streets around the venue in an hour.