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 ...

Unfortunately pestering people works. Same reason business websites annoy us with pop-ups and creepy emails. But many charities are pretty conscientious in how they manage their donor lists – there is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Off-peak fares. As a further incentive for people to stagger peak trips, they’re going to introduce off-peak discounts: 30% off Myki Money fares for trips that include Zone 1, between 9:30am and 4pm, ...

There’s hidden meaning in some of Melbourne’s tram and bus route numbers. Below 150 is all trams, for a start. Above is buses. I suspect trams will move to 1 or 2-digit numbers in the next few years, ...

A remark on social media inspired this: a quick comparison of suburban train punctuality in Australia. We have suburban rail networks in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, and all of ...

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 ...

Remember the talk, almost a year ago now, of a shake-up to train timetables, prompted by the introduction of the new trains? These changes are now expected to take effect in mid-December, following on ...