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.

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Spotted this brand new line diagram and rail connections sign at Parliament Station.

The good:
- Connecting transport is included
- Fare zones are marked
- Colours, fonts, etc are consistent with other PTV wayfinding
- It's close to a map

The bad:
- It's been installed over two weeks ahead of the timetable and route changes included in this poster which will confuse people
- City Loop directions are not clear, especially explaining which train to catch to get to key stations like Flinders Street or North Melbourne
- There's a lot of wasted space and it's not easy to read
- The zone 1/2 overlap is not marked
- The Glen Waverley Line is not treated the same as the Alamein Line with its design
- Including the 609 as a bus connection from Hawthorn Station is technically correct but not a useable interchange
- Labels for the "Traralgon Line" are different at Flinders Street and Richmond

It's far from the worst poster but there is room for improvement

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Out of all the tens of different PIDs and screen layouts across Victoria this new one at Richmond Station on Platforms 5 & 6 is my favourite.

It includes all the necessary information and is a good layout for an interchange station like Richmond with the extra panel on the right showing train connections.

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"Minor" disruption at the moment across the entire Melbourne metropolitan rail network. All passenger information displays, apps and website are not showing train departures.

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The upgrades to City Loop stations are all well and good, but what's the point of live departure screens if you can't see them?

Blocked from view at most points on the platform by the new signs placed directly in front of them

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This is just embarrassing.

Is this really the best information signage we can put up during a major planned disruption? I think we can do much better.

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Methinks this was not the best placement for the new exit and hearing loop signs at Melbourne Central Station...

To read the PID passengers now have to walk right up to the signs as they're no longer visible on large sections of the platform.

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What on Earth? Why would any train ever terminate at East Camberwell, especially when it is bustitution from Camberwell?

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On a railway line with 13 different stopping patterns this minimal sign format that doesn't provide information on stations is pretty useless.

Some kind of consistency with labelling services as "express" or "limited express" would also help.

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