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 ...

(Converted from Excel to HTML using Tableizer — very handy!). Sources: State Labor: Only Labor will remove 50 level crossings Coalition’s anonymous blogger “SpringStSource”: Level crossing removal by ...

Route length: Longer routes probably help a bit, giving Sydney’s train network a bigger footprint across the city, though Melbourne actually has more railway stations. EDIT 5/6/2021: there’s revised ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Adelaide’s tram network is confusing. It used to be just the one line to Glenelg. Now they confusingly listed as four different acronyms on the web site (why not route numbers?), but the route map and ...

I’ve written before that Victoria (and Melbourne) was the only major jurisdiction in the country not publishing patronage data more regularly than once a year.. Well, kudos to the Department of ...

When updating the level crossing removal list last month, I was interested to see how many of each type of removal had been used.. Broadly speaking there are five methods. They can rebuild the road to ...

The newly renamed/reorganised Department of Transport and Planning has updated some of their stats on the Data Vic web site.. Monthly public transport patronage by mode now goes up to September 2022..