Since the recent trip to Brisbane, I was pondering the effects of the 50 cent public transport fares. They apply citywide to all services (except Brisbane’s AirTrain) – as well as regional Queensland ...

On one level it’s kind of curious that they built the busways, given like most Australian capital cities they’ve also got a pretty big suburban rail network. The busways came about thanks to strong ...

We’ve all been wondering what the Metro tunnel timetable would look like. On Saturday 21st June they’ll be testing the tunnel, running trains through between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham, using a ...

Exploring Anyway I walked across Victoria Bridge into the CBD, and explored, taking in the main pedestrianised mall in Queen Street. I walked alongside the separated bike lanes in Edward Street – ...

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.

A quick one: the new Myki readers I wrote about recently have started to be switched on, and can be used. Here’s one at South Yarra: It seemed pretty responsive. If you’re eagle-eyed you’d notice it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why do five Melbourne trams have a bee logo? Because back in 2008 during a patronage surge, the government leased 5 surplus trams from Mulhouse in France. They were shipped over and put into service ...

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 ...