Council elections are happening this month. In a lot of areas there’s been a change. Here in Glen Eira we used to have 3 wards with 3 councillors each. Now we’ll have 9 wards with 1 councillor each. I’m not so sure this is a good idea. Unfortunately some elected councillors aren’t great. In the ... [More]
The Age reported that the State Government is planning to reduce the three stations in Brunswick (Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey) to two during the project to remove 8 level crossings. Looking at the current distances between the stations (source: Vicsig) we can see they’re pretty close. Station km from Southern Cross km from previous stop ... [More]
Here’s another in my series of ten year old photos, this time from September 2014. We were now fast approaching the November 2014 state election, as you’ll see in some of these snaps. Flinders Street Station’s clocks – if you look closely you’ll note some line names were modified as late as the 1990s (Cranbourne) ... [More]
Planning a cross town trip just got slightly easier, but there are some quirks
Information screens are good, but sometimes not placed in the best locations
How frequent was our first train service?
Just a quick post to note that the new lifts at Flinders Street station have recently been unveiled. They’re obviously a little way off commissioning, but this is a part of the Metro tunnel project becoming visible. The lifts will provide an accessible connection from the platforms at Flinders Street to the centre subway, part ... [More]
With all the excitement of the holiday in July, I never got around to posting my regular collection of ten year old photos, so here’s a bumper edition covering July and August 2014. (In fact there’s a couple from June as well that I missed last time.) Here’s the Queens Bridge Street bus and tram ... [More]
The rebuild didn’t cater for the 9-car trains already running
Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
The good news is they’re doing consultation and planning for accessible tram stops along route 82. Unsurprisingly they’re avoiding any stops on Ballarat Road, which is a traffic sewer (with the current eastbound stop being a real death trap). The scale on the map is a little funny, and the precise locations seem to be ... [More]
I took a quick look around Parkdale station on Saturday morning. It opened on Friday after works to remove two nearby level crossings. From the previous stop, Mentone, the line rises fairly quickly, to go over Warrigal Road before arriving at Parkdale, which has two side platforms. The temporary track, which was provided on the ... [More]