Here’s my regular post of old photos from ten years ago. This time, it’s November 2014, plus a few from October 2014 that I missed last month.
Another day, another train disruption. Plenty of unhappy punters at Richmond.
For a while, Metro was putting ads on the windows. Not good. This was how a Comeng train looked from the outside.
…and here was the view from the inside of a Siemens train. With no view out of the window, you might as well read your MX. Thankfully these ads were later prohibited, but they still curse buses and trams… and even some V/Line carriages.
Before the line colours, I’m not sure how they expected anybody to spot the disruption poster relevant to them.
Think they never check tickets on buses? Think again! This was at Southland’s bus interchange. (This was the same day I did the walk from East Bentleigh to Southland to show how infrequent the buses run.)
On the other side of Southland, the station was in progress… well, at least they’d put up some promotions for it. (It actually opened in 2017.)
A visit to Sydney involved a Skybus ride to the airport. Skybus’s vehicles in those days were a bit grim, I think.
A poster for Sydney’s airport train included Comic Sans…
…which was against the rules of this book, found on the trip.
We stayed in Kings Cross, well known for its big Coke sign.
As seen in this blog post, here’s the nearby Darlinghurst fire station, old but still in use. In Melbourne they’d have repurposed it by now, and built a new one.
Bondi Beach seems to need something of higher capacity than buses.
Sydney’s State Parliament House always looks more colonial to me than Melbourne’s – fair enough, it’s much older.
Barangaroo precinct, then under construction.
…and the Sydney skyline.
Back in Melbourne… Railway station plastic bins, found disposed of in the milk dock at Flinders Street Station.
Finally, here’s me with the tram sculpture on the corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets.
2 replies on “Old photos from November 2014”
And most of the time when you see ads plastered over V/Line windows they’re either V/Line advertising themselves or some promotion of an art exhibition in a regional city! So I imagine V/Line isn’t even getting any revenue from it!
Funny how a car can be defected and/or impounded for blocking the windows, but not government-operated public transport vehicles using the same roads. Rules for thee, not for me. Even worse is that there is plenty of space below the windows of a bus to plaster with ads, yet it’s left plain white with nothing more than an operator logo if lucky.
That said, it’s not just the ad placement that is annoying. Buses tend to have anti-scratch film on the windows, which is covered in small black dots, making the windows almost as hard to see out of as the ad wrap.