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A few photos from inside Arden station last week… it’s basically complete, now occupied by Metro as they get ready for the Metro tunnel opening. The main entrance is at street level, about 10 minutes ...
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, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Pretty strange looking tunnelThankfully within the Hoddle Grid itself there’s been plenty of traffic calming, protected bike lanes and speed reductions, but if the traffic from the WGT fills up the ...
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 ...
Just a quick post to note that the new lifts at Flinders Street station have recently been unveiled. They’re obviously a little way off commissioning, but this is a part of the Metro tunnel project ...
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 ...
You might have spotted this in The Age or on the government’s web site: the preferred route and station locations for Metro 2 through Fishermans Bend have been announced. Rewind a moment: What is ...