It is possible to get to Melbourne Tullamarine Airport using standard public transport, using Myki zone 1/2 fares ($5.30 adult one way, as of 2024, plus the once-off $6 cost of buying a reusable Myki ...

Victoria’s State Budget is next Tuesday. Pre-budget announcements have included a package of bus upgrades this week, and last week they announced train service upgrades on half a dozen suburban rail ...

Back in 2023 I got to see and provide feedback for the X’Trapolis 2 train, based on a mock-up in a warehouse in Tullamarine. Time marches on, and the first actual trains have been delivered and are ...

I’m working on a post about the train service upgrades announced yesterday, but waiting for some detail before publishing. Meanwhile, I was digging around and found this. Many moons ago when Usenet ...

Unfortunately the other data set that separates out patronage by days does not include weekend data for this period. It’s not clear if this is due to the free travel meaning Myki data isn’t available, ...

The Big Switch timetables for 1st February have just been released. You can find them in the online timetables (which still treat the two halves of the Metro Tunnel line as separate) and Journey ...

Lots of people riding the new line, despite the weather. The stations are looking great. Some hiccups with escalator faults and at one stage a disruption near Anzac station (apparently due to ...

…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 ...

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 is another big Metro tunnel test next weekend, August 16-17. Like last time, trains will run between Sunbury and Cranbourne/Pakenham, but passengers will be offloaded between Footscray and ...

Yes, I still have a car, the same one I bought in 2018, used for trips not convenient by PT, including about half-a-dozen trips each year into regional areas. It’s annual service and insurance and ...

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 ...