Leading on from yesterday here is another bad disruption notice on the Transport Victoria website.
Amongst other things, it tells people to catch a Glen Waverley train from Camberwell Station, and a Craigieburn train from Footscray Station. All completely wrong.
Is it just me or has the disruption information from Transport Victoria become even worse recently?
Take this for example. No City Loop trains for Burnley Group trains. The official advice is to take a "City Circle bus" (rail replacement bus) to get to City Loop stations.
No mention of the many other more practical options like the Metro Tunnel or any trams to get to Melbourne Central and Parliament.
One new issue with State Library / Melbourne Central that I have noticed since the Metro Tunnel opened has to do with interchanging.
When coming out of State Library Station there are no screens to tell you the next train departures from platforms at Melbourne Central. The only bank of screens on the way faces perpendicular to the path of travel.
Installing a new bank of screens facing the top of the escalators as you come up from State Library would be a massive help. Especially when wait times for trains can regularly be 30+ minutes.
Bank card touch on option spotted at a myki gate at Footscray Station. Only this one had it available though.
"Heat related speed restrictions"? It's not even 30 degrees. Very strange.
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These signs are a juxtaposition that we hate to see.
There are maintenance works scheduled on the Belgrave / Lilydale Line between Box Hill and Parliament on the same weekend as the Grand Prix, Moomba, AFL Opening Round and Labour Day.
Not a great way to promote heading to the Grand Prix or any of the other events this weekend by public transport.
Xtrapolis 2 spotted on the test track at Newport Workshops #MelbourneTrains #PublicTransport #Transit
Discussion: anyone else feeling a bit meh about the munnel?
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. [https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/eb33af88-9cb4-4b6d-9148-79e3fc5b547e.png] 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.
Hope everyone on the Lilydale Line is enjoying their one hour wait for the next train!
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