I’m not sure where in the network 000 is failing, but it’s worth pointing out Vodafone roams onto Optus now and some phones even have emergency satellite calls for 000 and roadside assistance.

Indeed, random sign on building, indeed.

Cherrybrook cherry blossoms!

There were dozens of people taking photos 😂

An older electric bike still going strong, pictured parked up in the parklands.

Bloody cyclists. We are SO back

- 2.5% is high, but likely because they might not have flat rate fees. Here in Aus, international cards cost more to process than domestic, unless you have a flat rate (most do).
- Glad that the prices were more or less the same or slightly cheaper whilst over there.

Ah yes! I did notice this on my visit.
- Terminals are programmed to require you to accept the surcharge (yes/no) before processing the payment, all after presenting the card.

Antony Green holding a bouquet

A low key tribute for legendary election analyst Antony Green - just messages from every living prime minister. 🗳️👨‍💻 #auspol #ausvotes

FINALLY

The latter often pose a greater risk as the batteries and charging equipment are not up to scratch.

They were never legal if over 200W, eg. The full size ones that are often modded to go full throttle. Only the smaller bikes are allowed to have throttles, typically folding (including escooters) or those small fixed cheap ones used for food deliveries.

Graphic comparing Sunday morning trains at Epping, Melbourne (18km from the City) 14 trains, to Epping, Sydney (also 18km from the city) 31 trains. Sydney Metro trains are excluded; these run every 10 minutes on Sundays. Central Coast & Newcastle express trains are also excluded. These mostly run every 30 minutes. Picture of Sydney Epping: via Wikimedia, by Abesty; cropped.

Melbourne is on the verge of growing bigger than Sydney, but our train timetables are stuck in the 1990s. Even excluding Metro and express services from Central Coast/Newcastle, Sydney's Epping has far more train services than Melb's Epping, at most times of the week, and especially on Sundays.

According to a friend, their 59 service this morning took this route.

My allergies could never

Bike on a rack in the back courtyard, clear blue sky behind

Day for it

New yellow-green Myki reader. The screen says "Tap below", with an arrow to the touch point.

Coming soon.
#Melbourne #PublicTransport #Myki

Bloody cyclists.

Every heritage 'village' people want to protect is unbelievably depressing-looking.

After the metro dig below, the closed platforms at Central Station are slowly re-opening

Just arrived into platform 12 and the platform has so much space. Am I right in thinking p15 is dead and buried now for good?

We’ve spoken several times about the A380’s “cargo weakness”, arguing it isn’t well-suited to Qantas’s cargo-heavy Asian routes.

While this isn’t the only reason they're not often scheduled on Asian routes, we thought we’d put together a thread explain it in detail 🧵

YouTube video by City Connections How the Transit Oriented reforms work.

New video!

This time explaining the new transit orientated reforms in NSW!

Featuring art from @scandinavian101.bsky.social and @crossing-lights.bsky.social

youtu.be/f09jIRrNhro

I've been doing quite a few cross City FKN-NPT trips recently and it really irks me how unreliable the cross city component is. Third time in a week my "Frankston" train from footscray has terminated @ Flinders Street (with zero driver announcement I might add.) Real sloppy from MTM.

Flemington racecourse platform. Passengers disembarking a Comeng train.

A photo of me. A moustached man wearing a salmon shirt and a black cap.

A screenshot of my Excel spreadsheet that tracks all of the stations that I’ve been to.

Officially visited all 222 metro train stations - finishing off at Flemington Racecourse on this glorious Melbourne day!

Every person on a bike is someone not in a car and not taking up seats on a train and reducing the country's environmental and healthcare costs heading into the CBD. Efficiently moving and not part of congestion, which may result in some people being blind to them.

The original Sydney metro

(we tried to be the) Fastest NYC Ferry Riders Alive Oh my God, I can't believe how much this fell apart.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/milesintransitTwitter: https://twitter.com/milesintransit1Bluesky: https...

We attempted to speedrun the NYC Ferry. It went horribly, horribly wrong.

Infrastructure Victoria diagram of proposed tram extensions

Infrastructure Victoria diagram of proposed bus rapid transit routes

Infrastructure Victoria diagram of proposed metropolitan train extensions

Infrastructure Victoria diagram of proposed regional town bus and coach improvements

Infrastructure Victoria's new strategy document makes a lot of sense to help get our state moving: relatively small but worthwhile tram extensions, rail electrification, bus rapid transit, and more services across all modes including V/Line and in regional towns.

More: www.infrastructurevi...

Jarrod lives 13km from work. His commute often takes more than an hour About one in five people in this suburb are unemployed, while a nearby employment precinct is almost unreachable without public transport links.

"The Department of Transport says it is investigating ways to improve bus links between the rail network and destinations such as the Avalon Airport."
-- This isn't complicated. We're not inventing teleports. It needs our politicians to see the benefits and agree to fund it. www.abc.net.au/news/...

YouTube video by Technology Connections Algorithms are breaking how we think

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

Illustration of a Parramatta Light Rail Urbos 100 headed towards the Parramatta CBD at sunset

The Parramatta Light Rail!