Long time readers would know that I like to blog my holidays. If you’re here for the transport content, there’ll be some, but that’s not necessarily the focus. It was time for a break from Melbourne’s winter. In 2024 it was the Far North Queensland and Thursday Island, in 2025 it was Brisbane. This year: […]
I m still catching up on my old photos from ten years ago. Here s June 2016. We d visited Singapore at the start of June for my cousin s wedding. But via some contacts I also got to look at a construction site for the Thomson-East Coast line. Back in Melbourne, the local level crossing removals at Ormond, [ ]
Lots of pics of Melbourne's newest tram
This video on the PTUA feed yesterday was mostly compiled from stuff I filmed in Barcelona last year: It is obviously not intended to be a direct comparison between Barcelona and Melbourne. They re different cities, though Melbourne and Barcelona have very similar metropolitan populations (5.44m vs 5.79m). Barcelona is a bit less than half the [ ]
The next stages of Tap And Go rollout have arrived. Announced yesterday: You can expect to see some Myki card readers switched and displaying Mastercard and Visa logos before that; I m told it ll happen in several phases. Apparently the dispersed nature of all the different bus depots is part of the challenge. But once done, [ ]
V/Line was a mess this week thanks to using an ARTC system that relies on Telstra mobile, which had a major outage on Wednesday. Plus apparently the backup satellite connection didn t work because the on-train equipment thought the mobile connection was fine. It raised an interesting question: how many people are affected by a major [ ]