I attended the State Budget stakeholder lock-up on Tuesday. In the lock-up they take away your phone, and sit you in a big room. After speeches from the Deputy Premier, Premier and Finance Minister, ...

This is what we’ve been waiting for for some time. This week the State Government finally revealed some of the train service upgrades that will accompany the Metro Tunnel. As part of the same ...

As I walked down to the polling place (chosen strategically for its sausage sizzle and cake stall) I was pondering voting and walkability and easy access. Voting in Australia is a chance to see ...

The first really visible signs of Myki mark II are about to be unleashed. In the next few weeks a few stations will get the new card readers for testing purposes. Later on the readers will spread ...

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 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. It’s not. As I wrote back in June, Melbourne (like a lot of big city rail systems) has ...

A common view is that rail stopping patterns should be kept as simple as possible. Lots of complex patterns are difficult for passengers to understand… and drivers and other staff as well. And when ...

A few weeks ago the Suburban Rail Loop peeps invited me and a few others to look around the work sites at Burwood and Box Hill. PTUA members can read about it in the latest PTUA newsletter (pay wall), ...

Given the Metro tunnel will result in a lot more people interchanging between lines, now is a good time to think about line naming Last Christmas in our extended family we did Kris Kringle gifts – one ...

It’s possible to find Myki machines and regular route buses at Melbourne Airport – but it’s a bit of a walk. Recently at Melbourne Airport, I hunted down the Myki machines and the PTV buses. The ...