Month: September 2011
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PT Problem of the Day: Fancy new Smartbus display positioned too far from stop, and obscured by other signs
Finally, almost a year after Smartbus routes started serving Lonsdale Street, the automated departure displays have started being switched-on at outbound CBD stops. This is good news, but it’s exposed other problems with the displays: this one for example, at the busy stop between Queen and Elizabeth Streets. The sign is too far from the…
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PT Problem of the Day: Coolaroo missing from MetroTrains maps
Turns out it’s not just the privately-run Southern Cross Station where they’re lax about updating the railway network maps. This map at Flagstaff station, run by Metro, also fails to include Coolaroo, which has now been open for over a year. It should be between Broadmeadows and Roxburgh Park. (To their credit, Southern Cross Station…
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PT Problem of the Day: Poor station exit design and #Myki reader placement
As the rail network gets busier, it’s important that stations be designed to assist the efficient flow of people. The current design of some railway station exits, and the placement of Myki readers simply doesn’t make sense. 1. Armadale station — this reader is well out of the way, a long distance from where passengers…
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PT Problem of the Day: Nightrider misses out on stop-specific timetables
One genuinely worthwhile upgrade in recent years has been the Metlink provision of stop-specific timetables at every train, tram and bus stop across Melbourne. But Nightrider stops missed out. Instead, stops display times from the start of the route, and ask you to “use the route map to calculate approximate time” — as if timetables…