It's finally here... almost. Tap and Go fare payments will be trialled from Monday (16th March) on the Craigieburn, Upfield, Ballarat and Seymour lines. This is important technology. Having bank cards ...

But there’s one key thing that was missing then and still seems to be missing now, and that is provision for future additional stations. This is particularly important between Southland (Cheltenham) ...

Happy long weekend! It’s a big one for events in Melbourne. Footy is back with a Sunday night game at the MCG, there’s the Formula 1 Grand Prix at Albert Park, and Moomba events. As well as any number ...

It’s finally here… almost. Tap and Go fare payments will be trialled from Monday (16th March) on the Craigieburn, Upfield, Ballarat and Seymour lines. This is ...

This page lists significant service changes to Melbourne’s public transport since 1993. Any additions or corrections welcome: contact me. Note: Some older links may now be broken. Try the Internet ...

First some good news: Just in the past few days, Google Maps seems to finally have realistic timings for interchange from the new stations. Presumably it was an issue in the GTFS data. It’s pretty bad ...

There were speed gains in the late-1990s, but just in the last few years, timings have been increased to as long (or longer in some cases) as they were in the 1970s, back when the network was running ...

Back in the Mother Country, they just opened the new rail line across central London. Known as Crossrail during construction, it’s officially now called the Elizabeth Line. London Mayor Sadiq Khan and ...

Inspired by Alon Levy’s quick-fire Bluesky threads full of transport ideas, here’s some quick-fire points from me: These are some priorities for fixing on Victoria’s public transport network. I’m ...