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What about buses? There’s no compo, not even any public data, and no accountability for punctuality, despite them carrying ...
It's Rail Safety Week. It's a good reminder of what we can all do to stay safe around trains and trams. I was wondering if ...
There is another big Metro tunnel test next weekend, August 16-17. Like last time, trains will run between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham, but passengers will be offloaded between Footscray and ...
Very busy at the moment, so I just wanted to highlight a couple of things via some recently published videos that are worth a look. This one on the Clifton Hill derailment is quite good at explaining ...
On one level it’s kind of curious that they built the busways, given like most Australian capital cities they’ve also got a pretty big suburban rail network. The busways came about thanks to strong ...
We’ve all been wondering what the Metro tunnel timetable would look like. On Saturday 21st June they’ll be testing the tunnel, running trains through between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham, using a ...
I attended the State Budget stakeholder lock-up on Tuesday. In the lock-up they take away your phone, and sit you in a big room. After speeches from the Deputy Premier, Premier and Finance Minister, ...
These Craigieburn and Upfield line changes are important because they vastly improve the wait times in the evenings and on Sunday mornings from every 30 to 40 minutes down to every 20 minutes.
I’ve been pretty busy and missed my usual posting of ten year old photos from January, so here’s two months in one hit. January 2015, two months after Labor got into power pledging they would remove ...
You might have spotted this in The Age or on the government’s web site: the preferred route and station locations for Metro 2 through Fishermans Bend have been announced. Rewind a moment: What is ...
Sometimes misinformation on public transport can be worse than no information. I’ve noticed four examples on my local rail line. This signage has been in place for years. It used to be correct. The ...
Another in my series of ten year old photos, this time from April 2014. The removal of the Springvale level crossing and construction of the new station was nearing completion, but alongside the new ...