…and Melbourne and Victoria: expected to start in early 2026 on Metro trains, before progressively rolling out to other modes. Will we in Victoria get there before Tasmania? Maybe our rollout will ...

Sunday 30th of November, with a temporary timetable dubbed the "Summer Start" - then the full service commencing on Sunday ...

Hello from an aeroplane somewhere between Milan and Singapore – I’m posting this from the air, lucky enough to be returning from a European holiday, my first time overseas since 2017. This time we ...

A couple of newish things in the world of public transport info that have flown under the radar. Metro now has realtime info for rail replacement buses. Perhaps it’s a soft launch because I can’t see ...

Inspired by Alon Levy’s quick-fire Bluesky threads full of transport ideas, here’s some quick-fire points from me: These are some priorities for fixing on Victoria’s public transport network. I’m ...

Somewhere I saw some ridership stats for Amtrak, and I noticed with some interest that they’re not that much higher than V/Line, and lower than NSW Trainlink. So I decided to make a chart. (Source: ...

If you’ve been following my Brisbane holiday blogs, you’d know we caught a few buses. Brisbane once had a big tram network. They were all replaced by buses in the 1960s. By 1988 they’d built the CBD ...

We’ve all been wondering what the Metro tunnel timetable would look like. On Saturday 21st June they’ll be testing the tunnel, running trains through between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham, using a ...

This is what we’ve been waiting for for some time. This week the State Government finally revealed some of the train service upgrades that will accompany the Metro Tunnel. As part of the same ...

Why do five Melbourne trams have a bee logo? Because back in 2008 during a patronage surge, the government leased 5 surplus trams from Mulhouse in France. They were shipped over and put into service ...

For years, the Warrnambool line had just three trains per day in each direction on weekends. In December 2024 it moved to four. From April it will be five, and they’ll also complete the switch from ...