Alastair Taylor

Do yourself a favour and head to Napier. A very handsome & chill part of the world. Deco fest dates are up now for next year but you're probably too late for accom already (we were lucky booking 13 months ago!).

Chicken shop names are on point.

Auckland goes pretty good. Ignore the kiwis in Australia who are not from Jafa-town who regularly take a shit on the place from a great height, you'll have a ball.

On my recent trip over to Cuzziebro-land, I couldn't help but think the new CRL is going to be tup top for getting up those f**ken hills/volcanoes from Britomart. Getting to cool places like this is going to be far easier.

An industrial strength clean would be nice but full blown Reno? Doubt you could justify it while there’s still another 50-60 level crossings to be removed beyond the current list of 110. Maybe in a decade? So many other priorities IMO.

Best way to change platforms at Flinders is back!

Only became obvious when seeing it for my own eyes every platform group has a PID in the underpass, but they are alternate which direction they’re facing.

They show next train grouped by line info/not individual service deets.

Thousands Of Homes Ahead Of Every Other State Victoria continues to build thousands more homes than any other state, with more than 61,000 home completions over the past 12 months – equivalent to building around 168 homes every single day.ABS dat...

According to this Spring St media release, the planning Minister has used her powers to approve 15k homes since the housing statement was release - an apparent 100% increase on a previous period. www.premier.vic.gov.au/thousands-ho...

Anyhow, that's arbitrary data based on completions. Looking further/earlier up the pipeline, we've still got more activity centres to be named and the initial pilot ones will be closer to finalisation soon.

Vic only got one sentence in the main media release, and it's a lol-worthy backhander anyhow.

The national numbers, according to the Property Council.

Did you know that Vic effectively nailed a housing completion target recently, according to 'the voice of the property industry'?

All the states that didn't hit a target got their own press release.

I reckon they should put the exclamation mark in the upcoming list as well (but only show disruption message once the disrupted train is next to arrive - see previous tweet)

👍 great use of all that screen space re: disruptions

Nope, not sad at all. If the wider network benefits as originally defined in the biz case are realised when the metro tunnel opens (we're still waiting for gov to announce timetables), it's going to be huge.

YouTube video by Simon Kranz Thessaloniki Metro, Greece - From Antiquity to Modernity [4K]. #metro

Just make MM2 Newport-Clifton Hill one of these and be done with it. youtu.be/60fvZuXW_Ew

YouTube video by Julian O'Shea I Remixed Tram Dings Into a Hit Song

👍 youtu.be/bZgIlaPh1X8

Just SRL precinct visions. That's the bskeet.

Rooftop cinema at Palace MP being set up!!

Sydney may have frequency and it may finally have the Mariyung trains but Sydney will never have the HCMT.

I struggle with the ‘why should the federal government have a cities strategy when the states have the planning power’ before anything else really.

Getting Ready For Two New Tunnels To Open Next Year The Allan Labor Government is ramping up work to prepare for the West Gate Tunnel and Metro Tunnel to open next year – two projects that will slash travel times for Victorians. The Metro Tunnel has en...

Annual summertime / disruptions notice. www.premier.vic.gov.au/getting-read...

a tap-and-go card reader on a wangaratta bus, which is mainly lime-green but features a dark screen with an arrow pointing below, indicating where one should tap their card

i went to wangaratta to ride the first tap-and-go bus in victoria! read here for my thoughts alisonrambles.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Aus Parliament House putting their streams on YouTube = 👌

YouTube video by CBC News: The National How bad could Trump's 25% tariff be for Canada's economy?

youtu.be/BipPHQVzEKc

YouTube video by CTV News How would U.S. impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods?

Canadian media perhaps understandably off their choppers re: possible 25% tariffs youtu.be/4SVgMixtSYI

Bourke St Melbourne 1969.

Pic credit Stephen Fleay personal collection

Today I found out that #Finland runs 'Jail Coaches' on their regular Intercity trains. I've never seen this before! Does any other country do this? 🤔🇫🇮 #NonstopEurotrip

📸 Photo courtesy of ValeriyTravel 📸

YouTube video by Big JayDog Adventures Geelong Victoria Australia one of the fastest growing cities

Oh hello G-town.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB_X...

Regardless, 10 years on, you have a pretty good idea of what happens when you encourage development (the zoning change from 10 years ago and the pre-COVID way of building apartments [focus on individual investors / investor stock]).

Carnegie is in Glen Eira which in turn was one of the first parts of Melbourne that implemented the RGZ from the 2010-2014 Matthew Guy Planning Minister era. Carnegie benefited from investors buying apartments to rent out to students at nearby Monash Caulfield.