If you’ve been following my Brisbane holiday blogs, you’d know we caught a few buses. Brisbane once had a big tram network. They were all replaced by buses in the 1960s. By 1988 they’d built the CBD ...

Update: some other charities: Australian NV Access creates the free NVDA screen reader for the visually impaired, and is a registered charity (via Quentin; nothing to do with giant graphics card ...

Updates: September 2017 | November 2018 | November 2020 Jump straight to the list I’ve been trying to sort out the status of all the level crossings from the various lists. Some are fully funded, ...

Here’s something I learnt yesterday: There’s a small town called Eucla, WA, near the SA border. Population: 53. Get this: It has its own timezone, which is halfway between Perth and Adelaide time. The ...

Here’s an update on the state of level crossing removals. I’ve done these lists before: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2014. They’re all based on the 2008 ALCAM list, which ranked Victoria’s level crossings by ...

Planning for success Sydney’s rail network might not be perfect, but they seem to be doing a lot of things right – patronage 50% higher than Melbourne’s doesn’t happen by accident. Can Melbourne do ...

Cross City line changes “Cross City” is the name given to the green lines on the map: Frankston through to Newport and the Williamstown and Werribee lines (including the Altona Loop). The Frankston ...

Melbourne also could and should be addressing traffic priority for trams, and more aggressively resolving accessibility issues. And we should be extending suburban tram routes to more logical ...

Cutting waiting times One of the keys to making sure the metro tunnel works as intended is high frequency services at all times of day, on all lines, to ensure interchange to and from the tunnel is ...

Dedicated lanes aren’t the only way of improving bus speeds. Queue/jump start lanes at key intersections can help as well. And smarter traffic light programming can help buses get through without ...

I’ve lived in various parts of City of Glen Eira since the mid-90s, but never in a street requiring parking permits. This council covers inner-suburban areas in Tram Land, out to the middle suburbs ...

Channel 9 and The Age got hold of a previously unpublished rail plan, or at least the summary maps from it. Age: Leaked rail plan shows few extra services for regional commuters Channel 9: I assume ...