Not a transport post. Standby for the Brisbane busways post coming soon… It’s the end of the financial year – when charities get in touch asking for donations. Having recently been bombarded with ...

Once the Metro tunnel opens, the Frankston line will via the Loop… but they’re not doing that for the 21st. They are running extra Frankston line services to cope with the Cran/Pak loads, though ...

These Craigieburn and Upfield line changes are important because they vastly improve the wait times in the evenings and on Sunday mornings from every 30 to 40 minutes down to every 20 minutes.

Less than a week until the Federal election. I wanted to highlight the Sunshine station upgrade, which has become a Federal election issue. They say “do it once, do it right” – of course there’s a ...

Subsequently the trams were purchased and given the C2 designation. They now have the standard PTV livery, but they still have a small bee logo near each cab. The C2 trams are also some of the oldest ...

I’ve been pretty busy and missed my usual posting of ten year old photos from January, so here’s two months in one hit. January 2015, two months after Labor got into power pledging they would remove ...

Last week I finally got to Wangaratta to try the bank card fare payment trial they’re running on local buses. When it comes getting new and occasional users onto public transport more often, the most ...

Last month I found myself in Maidstone near the new tram depot under construction in Hampstead Road. This depot will be home to the new G class trams, which will initially run on routes 82 and 57, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fears of some of the station overshadowing the shops was not apparent at 10am on Saturday. Given the orientation of the station, I would expect it would only happen early in the morning. There’s a ...