Jamie Roche

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/...

The 800 bus upgrade is nothing short of a complete Peter Parker victory. The thing is though there's lots of route 800's around Melbourne, 40-50 lines with no sunday service. Every transport advocate needs to adopt their nearest bus with no sunday service and then just start harping on about it

Sad that airline went bust tho

All of these ones are brand new services, with the first time Juneyao Airlines have served Australia (and Melbourne)

And as an added note, China Southern Airlines is also starting service from Beijing-Daxing to #Sydney a day earlier than Melbourne's service (also seasonal)

New #Melbourne flights we'll be seeing over the next few weeks for #aviation enjoyers
- China Airlines seasonal service to Auckland (seasonal, starts 4th December)
- China Southern Airlines to Beijing-Daxing (seasonal, starts 14th December)
- Juneyao Air to Shanghai-Pudong (starts 20th December)

Fiji Airways adds non-stop flights from Cairns to Nadi The new connection lifts off the same three days as Fiji Airways’ Nadi-Dallas flights.

Fiji Airways spreads its wings to Australian cities

Following the launch of services to #Canbera, Fiji Airways will begin services to #Cairns on April 10, 2025 every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday using the Boeing 737-MAX 8

www.executivetraveller.com/news/fiji-ai...

I just hope the next thing I don't hear is a replacement bus breaking down. T_T

It also feels like you're in more control of what content you want to see, rather than the application controlling it all the time.

+ less toxic (for now), so that's another plus

Hate to be nitpicking, but would it better to say the JQ A321 was a NEO variant? JQ also have the A321CEO variant as well

My favourite aircraft (highest to lowest) in terms of appearance

- Airbus A380
- Boeing 747
- Airbus A321NEO
- Airbus A220 (both variants)
- Boeing 787-9
- Boeing 777-300
- Fokker 100/Boeing 717
- De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400/Saab 340

For those curious, this one was the last bubble bus in service to have the SmartBus livery. These had their Smartbus PIDS removed ages and had not been on DART for a while, so seeing this one final time was a rare treat!

An old icon of #Melbourne ‘s streets

Commonly referred to as bubbles, these units spent a good amount of time servicing CBD services to the eastern suburbs.

This pic was taken 1 week ago with bus 643 on route 906. As of Thursday, this bus has now been decommissioned

#ptv #victoria

It helps also that you have airlines like Japan Airlines expanding services to Australia.

Melbourne’s a good example of that, with recently added frequencies to (increase to 5-6x weekly? Correct me if I’m wrong) with bigger planes also coming in

Bluey blues clues amd huckle

Victorian government denies company on the verge of walking away from myki upgrade Trouble is reportedly brewing with the US-based company responsible for upgrading Victoria's myki ticketing system, raising fears of delays and cost blowouts.

Upgrades to #Myki including bank card payment options and weekly fare capping are essential to make public transport easier to use - especially for new and occasional users, including both locals and tourists. www.abc.net.au/news/...

Ideally, added frequencies should reduce how long it takes to get to somewhere

Of course, it may take a bit longer than by car, but the more frequencies and better accessibility to using it (eg not relying solely on a Myki card) the better

Finally logged out of X on all my accounts, yipee

photo of the Melbourne town hall and an A class tram trundling down Collins Street under a clear blue sky

photo of St Paul's Cathedral and Swanston St under a clear blue sky

just another Magnificent Meteorology Monday in Marvellous Melbourne

Last weekend was the end of an era for #ptv route 380, operated by Kinetic.

Since Sunday, this route now falls under routes 668 and 669

📍Ringwood Station Bus Interchange

#transport #melbourne #victoria #ptv #kinetic #ptua #melbournebuses

The Queen of the Skies at YMML (Melbourne Airport) departing on runway 34

Was about a week ago when I visited Melbourne Airport to do some plane spotting

Here’s Air New Zealand’s ZK-OKU coming in from Auckland as NZ121 on 27th October

Still from ABC News Victoria titles, showing footage of a Z-class tram

Every night, ABC News Victoria pays tribute to the humble #Melbourne Z-class tram 🚋👍

Might as well do a quick little intro

Hey fellas. I’m Jamie, an IT and transport enthusiast from Melbourne

You’ll probably see me talk about IT or transport related news or topics, particularly public transport and software dev

Hope to see you around Bluesky :)

Oh yeah the *checks notes* Elon Musk app

That would be thanks to each hybrid having a Hanover desto. Hanover destos are harder to view the desto via a camera shot

Welcome to the club, brother

It's certainly a lot nicer than X! Let's hope it stays that way

Might use this more. A lot less toxic than its rivals, particularly the bird app