What you need to know about Queensland's train station staffing changes
By Charlie McLean
Queensland Rail says it is moving to a system where staffing is based on "customer needs and patronage", but the changes have been labelled as "extreme" that will make some stations less safe.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-04/queensland-rail-station-staff-hours-changed/106611952
How people power is helping to restore bus routes across Sydney
By Jessica Kidd
Communities fighting to have their local bus or ferry routes restored should campaign hard and "stick it out for the long term", according to these residents in Pyrmont.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-04/nsw-people-power-bus-routes-sydney-public-transport/106628282
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Canberra's light rail to Woden to take more-direct route after feedback
By Monte Bovill and Penny Travers
The ACT government sought feedback on two possible routes for light rail from the city south to Woden, and is now pushing ahead with its preferred more-direct path.
Great day out this morning for the very first X'Ttapolis 2 train in regular passenger service!
This is Melbourne's newest EMU train that will start to replace the ageing, but beloved, Comeng fleet.
Many people came to ride this service to Upfield and back despite the weather and short notice.
More to come in a future video!
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"People in the US: how do you get around without a car?
We’d like to hear from people living in US cities about what public transport, if any, you use."
"While the US plans to spend trillions of dollars building more highways in the coming decades, in terms of investment in public transit, US cities are in some cases light-years behind comparable cities internationally."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/people-in-the-us-how-do-you-get-around-without-a-car
Well damn. I live in a city with a public transport system that, while we do complain, is quite decent and I have absolutely zero plans or desire to ever again own a car.
I do however remember the public transport death loop of living in a smaller place. Once the public transport to the nearby city where everyone worked, studied, did their shopping and so on became unreliable a lot of people needed to get cars. The more cars the less public transport could be justified the more need for cars and so on.
And because we're the fucking U.S. of A. investing in actual proper public transport is not even in the solutions offered at the end of the article.
Or the end of zoning that forces business to be miles away from where people actually live.😤
"Two buses, three hours and 13 miles: how Americans in ‘transit deserts’ get groceries without cars"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/03/bus-public-transport-cuts-groceries-snap
It's a digital pay-as-you-go fare system that caps at €72 per calendar month. It can also calculate your fare for a given trip despite the landscape of different fare rates or schemes. It looks promising.
#PublicTransport #Transit
With the introduction of a statewide price cap for the Check-in/Check-out system CiCoBW, Baden-Württemberg is taking a further step towards simpler and more user-oriented fare systems in public transport. Since April 2026, passengers pay a maximum of €72 per calendar month—regardless of the number or length of their journeys on local public transport. This strengthens […]
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