We have Subway's in Sydney as well. Both restaurant and railway types.

We have one of the worst railway networks in the world, not for child abductions, but for just service. It's pathetic. But what's even worse is our roads.
The New South Wales government has made it virtually impossible for me to get my license. I live on my own, I'm 18, and on an award wage. I don't have parents who can drive me around and get the hours. Learner drivers now have to do 150 hours. As a learner I have to always have a qualified driver sitting in the front passenger seat. No one in my family drives.
So what I have to do is: buy a car, and then borrow a friend for more than tree hours a week (a very self-sacrificing friend), or pay $60 per hour for an instructor. $60 x 150 hours = $9000 AU. Plus a car and insurance I'm looking at around $12,000 from my $20,000 salary.
But, now I've heard there's talk about the government putting the hours up to 250 hours of learner driving with a qualified driver in the front seat. But, they are also planning to make it so that there's only a qualified driving instructor there! So no learners can learn off their parents. Hence I'd be looking at $60 x 250 hours = $15,000AU plus a car, so $18,000 out of a $20,000 salary.
My only three options are:
1. Start driving now, and become the most demanding friend in history.
2. Start driving now, with a driving instructor only.
3. Put it off, and pay 90% of my annual salary in future (Although I'd probably get a pay rise in future.)
Do you have any of these problems in the other states, Bud and Kiki?