Great to see Maidstone tram depot taking shape, but why have they made it more difficult for pedestrians?
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Walking in Maidstone
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Night Buses every night?
Something interesting out of the Australian Open tennis this year – 15 special “AO25 night bus” routes will run Sunday to Thursday night, if play runs after 11:30pm. The buses depart from the Russell Street side of Federation Square, 40 minutes after play finishes. This means many tennis fans have an option if they miss ... [More]
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Farewell to 2024
Just a quick post, because I can’t believe the end of the year has raced up like this. My favourite things of 2024? Resolutions? One is that I’m going to try to blog more next year. No promises though. Hope you’ve had a good 2024, and Happy New Year for 2025!
Another of my series of old photos from ten years ago, this time covering December 2014. The State Election had just passed, and our new Premier had some things to say in MX – apologies for the sun glare. Particularly relevant for those of us interested in public transport is Andrews talking about Turn Up ... [More]
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Who decides how often the trains run?
This came up several times recently on social media, so I thought I’d work my answers into a blog post. Who decides how often the trains (and other public transport services) run? It’s not the private operator MTM (Metro Trains Melbourne), it’s the State Government. If you want to read the grisly details, it’s in ... [More]
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Inside Anzac and Parkville stations
The Metro Tunnel is nearing completion. Last week I got to look around two of the stations.
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Here is the news
ABC America’s World News Tonight leaves me exhausted just watching it
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 ... [More]
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Wasting time in PAEC
There are plenty of real issues the government should be quizzed on
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V/Line falling short
Drizzle, and a crowded train couldn’t prevent an enjoyable quick trip to Ballarat
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Myki and 3G
You might have read The Age’s story a couple of days ago: Myki meltdown: Trams, buses hit by glitches linked to end of 3G (Paywall) The government commented, but didn’t confirm or deny that 3G was to blame. I’ve got good info that it was due to 3G, but perhaps not in the way you’d ... [More]
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WGT city exits
Pretty strange looking tunnel
Here’s another of my monthly posts of photos from ten years ago – this time it’s October 2014, fast approaching the November state election. This was some unconventional advertising for the election – the “Southern Express” spruiking the Coalition government’s upgrades on the Frankston line. The unions meanwhile were lying in wait outside the station. ... [More]
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V/Line patronage surging on weekends
The Monthly Average Patronage By Day Type And Mode data was updated to include up to June 2024, and I thought I’d look at how V/Line is doing, given the fare cap introduced on 31st March 2023. Here’s the chart, with weekends highlighted, as I’ll talk about them a bit more below. The overall pattern ... [More]
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More frequent? Faster?
Are trains faster since the Glen Huntly tram crossing was removed? Perhaps surprisingly, no.
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Council elections 2024
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]