Perhaps the one silver lining to US imperialism, is that more people will want better public transport

The "big switch" has ended up being a lot less big than originally promised. I'm really happy we now have a turn up and go service - or at least every 10 minutes - on the lines going through the Metro Tunnel (the Munnel), but feels really silly we haven't brought more drivers on board to run services at least every 10 minutes across the network, and upped all bus routes to the same frequency.

There's a great map that Taitset made showing sections of the metro network which could already do 10 minute running.

My mum, who's in her late 60s, told me of growing up in [European city]. She interchanged 2 times between 2 trains and a bus on her way too highschool. Her and her friends didn't like the bus because it only came every 10 minutes. In the 1970s.

It's a bit embarrassing to me how bad our frequency is, given our massive population.

It would be great if we could convince our government or MPs holding the balance of power at the next state election to invest in a larger workforce to achieve the frequency PTV needs to thrive.

Keen to hear others thoughts on the "Big Switch".

P.S. I've talked to multiple colleagues who live on the lines who literally didn't know about the "Big Switch" until I told them about it, 2 days beforehand.

Cross-posted to !melbourne@aussie.zone

• https://aussie.zone/post/29742121

Edit just for the good people in this community: mission accomplished folks! Not sure what did it, perhaps the railway was successful in their legal challenges, but only the real listings remain as far as I can tell! (Checked today 2025.08.09)

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/20546632

Friends, please help me report multiple scam listings for Puffing Billy on Google maps "located" in the CBD/South Melbourne.

Location 1 CBD: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fxVNa5w4SbZ7V1Qi9

Location 2 South Melbourne: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YB7w8NzmbtMJbdmf7

These, for those who know, are obviously not real. And include a bunch of AI generated photos (plus photos from people who didn't realise the postings were not the real ones)

The locations link to a fake puffing billy websites selling "discounted tickets" (putting a markup on the tickets, or stealing personal information, do doubt).

I've tried repeatedly to suggest an edit to have them removed, the CBD listing was briefly taken down, but somehow the scammer has had it reinstated.

The one in South Melbourne keeps being rejected by the Google moderator.

Please leave negative reviews on these listings based on your own assessment and opinion. If you come to the same obvious conclusion, please use the keywords "scam" so that google highlights this to people looking at the reviews.

Please suggest an edit > place is closed or not here > and choose one of the following:

1. Doesn't exist here
2. Duplicate of another location (make sure you don't select the other fraudulent location, only none of the above if the one from Belgrave doesn't appear)
3. Offensive, harmful or misleading

Hoping the number of reports will help it be reviewed by someone who isn't just looking at the age of the postings and the number of reviews.

I have made a FOI request to obtain documents on how much this turnback project would have cost.

Hoping to convince the government to fund it, since I'm betting I would be a tiny fraction of what we spend on roads along the line.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinders_railway_station

Keen to hear people’s thoughts. Personally I think the SRL will change how Melbourne works in ways current modelling won’t consider. That comes at a high cost, but is it too high?

Train is listed as stopping at MCE but the train’s stopping pattern says not.

One less tram square in Greater Melbourne, yay!

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