melbourne metropolitan busways board

it's like a submerged tube tunnel but without the submerging bit, incredible

you wouldn't believe the engineering that goes into a tunnel boring machine cutterhead that can cut through water like that

in about 3 months

this submission quoted in this Marcus Wong post suggests allied Mills has ~30% national market share and Kensington is 20% of their operation, so about ~6% of all national flour milling I guess?
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giftable

tapping the sign
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40 year old victorian locomotive still serving their regional rail passengers the old fashioned way

☝️☝️☝️☝️

you know it's good when the ferns start appearing

couple of years under Hutt Trusteeship would fix us

even as a younger person I'll still use feet and inches sometimes but it never ever occurred to me that Celsius was a recent metrication in Australia

I'm smiling I'm nodding

simple misunderstanding, they had to sew me onto the shoes of my mentor so I could physically be their shadow for a day

paid a lovely $11.40 AUD for ~30km return commute on a metropolitan bus and train each way

serene

being able to look up people's names and photos in teams during a meeting just to double check is possibly the only good thing to come out of that dreaded application

looks like lots of people are friendly and grateful to bus drivers
it’s good
we should respect them and give them space to do their thing.
buses are the whales of the road

in Hong Kong they call them bus capitains in recognition of the fact that they are at the helm of great vessels plying the oceans of the street
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finances have been secured and permits are being issued as we speak
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and the fact that works for airport rail start tomorrow, so there's another few years of regular bustitutions through sunshine on the horizon which will be another reason to cut so much of the service short at West Footscray

an East Pakenham bound HCMT train arriving at the rather dreary Albion station, set to be rebuilt in the next few years

A Sunbury bound HCMT train arriving at Albion with one of the glorious red brick 1920s substations in the background that powered the electrification of Melbourne's railways

happy first day of full time metro tunnel services to all who celebrate

please, my father was Dingley Bypass, my name is Dingley Bypass Junior

it's also a scientifically proven fact that Vegemite on toast tastes better when the toast is cut up into toast soldiers

indeed it has

human sized snail sculpture in Queanbeyan. very anatomically accurate too

check out this huge guy I saw on the weekend

as with all rail service taxonomy discourse: It Depends

my elderly cat tish having the time of her life roasting on a concrete balcony on a 45°C day

ancient tish also loves to shout

if it's heading back to Asia it should be almost all empties

out for her morning stroll leave her be

Renouncing my life to ride the rails