2025年1月21日 · 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.

9 小时之前 · One source in the ABC story called the trial pointless.. I don’t think that’s quite right – it’s not quite the equivalent of just buying a Square card reader and mounting it in a bus – those wouldn’t be able to handle the 2-hour fares and daily cap.. But at the same time, it does look awfully like they’ve just installed the same card readers from Adelaide into the buses – with ...

3 天之前 · The central subway at Flinders Street has reopened for interchange between platforms

2024年12月4日 · @B P Moffit, yes clearly there’s a trend away from mainstream media – newspapers, radio, TV. My view is I still like to dip into them; having more options to go looking for details is very good, but the MSM can give me a good overview of what’s happening.

2024年11月24日 · A couple of things from PAEC’s (Public Accounts & Estimates Committee) Inquiry this week in State Parliament. Trivial pursuits. The Opposition decided to make a big fuss about the new X’Trapolis 2.0 trains not being able to use the Metro tunnel, as if this was a huge problem due to poor planning.. It’s not. As I wrote back in June, Melbourne (like a lot of big city rail systems) has been ...

2023年1月18日 · On Saturday (7th January) we hit the cafe near the hotel again for breakfast and had a random meeting with the sister of a friend. It’s a small world. Some of the Freedom Convoy from Thursday passed us while walking to the National Library of Australia to look at the “Viewfinder” photography exhibition, which was very good.. We also had a quick look at the Reading Room, which looked like ...

2025年1月21日 · Hi Danial, I know the PTUA is in favour of the SRL, but don’t you think that with the state broke, for many years to come, the money would be better spent on bringing accessibility up to the legislation for 2022, and 2032 ASAP, I would guesstimate about $6b, and spending the rest on Medical facilities.

2024年12月31日 · Just a quick post, because I can’t believe the end of the year has raced up like this. My favourite things of 2024? Thursday Island and Far North Queensland trip, chasing down ancestors, exploring new places.Wonderful.

2025年1月10日 · Transport blogger / campaigner and spokesperson for the Public Transport Users Association / professional geek. Bunurong land, Melbourne, Australia. Opinions on this blog are all mine.

2024年10月7日 · 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.