Last week Public Transport Victoria unleashed a torrent of data concerning punctuality and cancellation figures for Melbourne’s train network with the Frankston line bestowed with the unfortunate title of train line with the most cancellations. I understand the public interest value of this data – it’s a way of holding operators (and the government) to…
The first of the new elevated stations on the Caulfield-Dandenong corridor has opened to passengers with the Premier, Public Transport Minister and local members on hand to officially re-open Noble Park station. A new era dawned at #NoblePark(link is external) this morning! Thanks for your patience during these @levelcrossings(link is external) works. There will be…
Originally launched in September 2016 by Tim Fischer, the Rail Futures Institute(link is external)‘s InterCity proposal presents a decades-long proposal to increase connectivity to Melbourne for Victoria’s regions through an investment program that would see new or altered routes as well as service improvements on the regional Victorian Rail network. Regular readers might be familiar with…
In September VicRoads proposed to make Hoddle Street & Punt Road a permanent clearway from the Eastern Freeway to the Yarra River as part of a larger project to alter intersections along the route. Also during the Christmas season, Spring Street unveiled its decision on which corridor to select for the North East Link and at the same…
It was one of SBS’s most highly rated programmes. If you missed it, you missed a pretty schmick production with an Australian broadcaster’s first foray into the ‘slow TV’ genre when SBS broadcast The Ghan: Australia’s greatest train journey(link is external) in primetime without ads on Sunday night. But what you might know is that there…