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What about buses? There’s no compo, not even any public data, and no accountability for punctuality, despite them carrying ...
It's Rail Safety Week. It's a good reminder of what we can all do to stay safe around trains and trams. I was wondering if ...
There is another big Metro tunnel test next weekend, August 16-17. Like last time, trains will run between Sunbury and ...
Another in my series of photos from ten years ago. The Nylex sign worked for years, inspiring Paul Kelly’s song Leaps And Bounds. I caught it at 11 degrees (and in the month of May, too), as in the ...
Very busy at the moment, so I just wanted to highlight a couple of things via some recently published videos that are worth a look. This one on the Clifton Hill derailment is quite good at explaining ...
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 ...
It’s no huge surprise that the State Government has announced incumbent operators MTM and KDR will continue to operate Metro Trains and Yarra Trams respectively. The current contracts started in 2009, ...
I don’t see a lot of movies in the cinema, so call me slow if you like, but I think I’ve worked out why big TVs and DVDs and Bluray are getting so popular. Freaking $18.50 for an adult, $13.50 for ...
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 ...
Great to see Maidstone tram depot taking shape, but why have they made it more difficult for pedestrians?
My time on the PTUA committee only overlapped with Paul’s by about a year or so. I was newsletter editor in his final year as President. But I remembered him from my days as an “ordinary” member in ...