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]
Heading home from holiday, and a postscript on things I shouldn’t have bothered taking
Another fine day in Cairns. After a quiet start, we took a walk to find a post office to send some post cards, and then headed for the marina. We’d booked a tour at the very civilised time of 11am to the Great Barrier Reef on the “Reef Rocket“, a fast catamaran that gets you ... [More]
Cairns CBD footpaths are wide, so walking around is easy… until you need to cross a street.
Time to head from Cape York back to Cairns, but because of reasons, we weren’t flying directly out of Bamaga, but instead from Horn again. So another early start: brekky in the hotel before a quick trip to the Seisia wharf, and back to Thursday Island on the ferry, for a very brief reunion. Then ... [More]
Cool water, dusty roads, and the biggest ant hills you’ve ever seen.
My tip: Go to the tip (and use a local guide if you can)