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Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

David Pocock, rubgy guy turned politician, has been kicked out of a club comprised of politicians and people who pay for access to politicians in order to influence them for being too political.

I would add to this otherwise good list that connections between services need to be centred in service and infrastructure planning - no more station renovations or platform stops that make transferring between services harder.

It’s a $4 billion rail ‘superhub’. But these passengers will watch it pass from the train window The Sunshine station decision has left commuters from the north-east without easy access to the Metro Tunnel and future airport rail link.

it's one standard gauge platform, michael, how much could it cost?

Very Christmas ham of you.

West Gate Tunnel to open in December as premier calls for free toll roads this summer After the project was plagued with delays and disputes, Jacinta Allan has asked for travel on the toll road and others to be free this summer to make up for years of construction pain.

Counter-proposal: Tear down/fill in the CityLink and stop planning new mega-roads that enable more and more and more and more and more and more traffic to be vomited onto local streets.

Screencap of the PTV app, showing the city bound departures from a nearby train station on the morning of Sunday, 12 October. At this time of the morning trains every 40 minutes.

Free PT on the weekends during Soft Launch Summer as a “thank you” for years of disruption.

That’s nice, provided you don’t need to be anywhere on time on a Sunday morning.

Also, this way, if/when the shit hits the fan, it's not like it's a peak hour service.

It's basically set at "die hard train fans can joyride but please don't use this as your main just yet" service levels.

Melbourne’s new Metro Tunnel will ‘soft open’ in early December before full services in February Trains will only run every 20 minutes and in off-peak hours during the soft opening, with commuters having to wait until February next year before a full timetable is implemented.

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

🚇 Metro Tunnel will be "soft" opening in December (from The Age)

🚇 On weekdays, trains every 20 mins between 10am and 3pm from Westall and West Footscray

🚇 On weekends, trains every 20 mins from 10am to 7pm, and extend to East Pakenham every 40 mins and Sunbury every 60 mins

Looking forward to the common law version of robodebt.

Tram driver over PA: “Attention passengers. A reminder that vaping is not allowed on trams. It’s easy to act like a human being”.

Uppity Ndeavour.

I agree that the stops are very closely spaced on that section of Victoria Street but in my bargain basement attempts to measure it using the stopwatch on my phone, traffic lights are the biggest source of delay.

I would love to think that network connectivity was at the forefront of their thinking. Sadly they have a very strong track record of moving platform stops away from intersections so that turning lanes can be maintained for car traffic.

map showing upcoming tram works on victoria street outside of the queen victoria market.

These downgrades to Victoria St are peak Melbourne.

We're moving the Peel St stop to Queen St, which reduces connectivity between the 57 and 58 tram, AND, the replacement stop at Queen St is only 140m away from the existing Victoria/Elizabeth stop.

Does this move the Peel St stop on the 57 half a block away from the Victoria St stop on the 58?

Screencap of PTV app showing departure board for a tram stop. Three trams are predicted to arrive at the same time despite being scheduled at seven minutes apart.

Yarra Trams once again proving itself incapable of providing a consistent and reliable service.

Why subsidise this private company when it can’t even deliver the product it’s meant to?

And why isn’t this more of a political issue?

New study finds that introducing a 120km/h speed limit on German motorways reduces road deaths by 35%.

🔥🔥🔥

The dumb thing about the bus electrification climate fix is that the electric bus I’m on is stuck behind single occupant cars and so doesn’t make getting around any easier.

A diesel bus with priority ahead of cars would be a much better climate solution.

“Oh, we’re really sorry for inviting this Career Racist to speak on a show hosted by a different Career Racist, how could we have ever known he would say Deeply Racist Things?!”

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

Of course this article has to quote that One Guy who thinks that despite there being far fewer injury and fatality crashes reducing the speed limit Has Been A Disaster For Safety, Actually.

"doesn't mention much" is an overstatement by my read...

Public transport is mentioned in the glossary on pp 113-114 and nowhere else!

City of Melbourne replied, and I'm paraphrasing here, "this ain't our property, so it ain't our problem, kthxbye".

screencap of a city of melbourne website about their parking review in carlton. it reads: Residential permits We received 44 responses about residential permits. Respondents reported challenges related to the residential permit system. Example of feedback we heard about residential permits: 'We pay over $200 a year for permits and still spend 15+ minutes circling.'

"I contribute less than a dollar a day to be permitted to store my private property in valuable public space and I'm infuriated that there's never any space available!!"

Photograph of a Lexus parked on a footpath because they’re driving luxury so screw the poor

A durrr i’m a Lexus driver and I therefore have the right to park my stupid Lexus on the footpath

A machine-generated image of an urban stroad, featuring a vehicle that is possible a tram but possible a bus (maybe trackless tram), some cable cars that are not consistently suspended from the right cable, and a whole bunch of other AI nonsense.

A major transport conference is asking for AU$950 for registration and they can't even be bothered to pay a designer or photographer to make a basic image for their website.

If you ever needed evidence that the so-called abundance agenda is full of overly confident bros shitting on about things they know nothing about, then here it is.

UTS’s teacher education program set to close as university reveals plan to slash more than 1,000 subjects Of 1,101 subjects to be axed, 463 had no enrolments and weren’t taught in 2024, according to University of Technology Sydney proposal

Good! Like we need something inconsequential like training teachers getting in the way of universities being parasitic property developers!

I don’t understand how and when she entered my YouTube algo but I’m glad she did.