Good morning Lyon! Some Googling overnight, and I felt like we could navigate the local public transport. Step one: the Lyon ...

Those who follow the cricket would know about the Boxing Day Test – a surprising result that saw just two days of cricket ...

I'm a bit behind posting my ten year old photos, so here's a batch from November and December 2015. We had a trip to Sydney - ...

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 ...

There’s a Wikipedia page “Commuter rail in Australia” which has a quick snapshot of the country’s heavy rail systems. (The term “commuter rail” is problematic. In a North American context it often ...

This page lists significant service changes to Melbourne’s public transport since 1993. Any additions or corrections welcome: contact me. Note: Some older links may now be broken. Try the Internet ...

This seems quite handy: a few PTV buses in the Ventura fleet have a Passenger Information Display (PID) on the back which, when the bus is waiting at a terminus to depart, shows how many minutes until ...

You might have spotted this in The Age or on the government’s web site: the preferred route and station locations for Metro 2 through Fishermans Bend have been announced. Rewind a moment: What is ...

Here’s something I learnt yesterday: There’s a small town called Eucla, WA, near the SA border. Population: 53. Get this: It has its own timezone, which is halfway between Perth and Adelaide time. The ...

There were speed gains in the late-1990s, but just in the last few years, timings have been increased to as long (or longer in some cases) as they were in the 1970s, back when the network was running ...