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Month: September 2012

  • PT Problem of the Day: Hope Street bus scrapped – how about a Community Bus service?

    Brunswick’s Hope Street 509 bus service runs for the last time this week. Public Transport Victoria is adamant the route’s low patronage does not warrant the cost, and that it is too close to other services. The route is only 2km long, and does not connect to train services. It’s clear that some residents, particularly…

  • ‘Trains not tollroads’ campaign revs up

    From the PTUA’s September newsletter. Join now to receive regular newsletters and support better public transport. In November 2010 Ted Baillieu said of Doncaster rail: “The easiest thing to do would be to do exactly what this [Brumby] government has done and do nothing. We are not going to do that, we are going to……

  • PTUA President to step down

    Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) President Daniel Bowen has announced that he will step down next month. Mr Bowen said that after nine years as President, he’d decided to take a break, and will not seek re-election at the PTUA’s Annual General Meeting on October 11th. “It’s been a pleasure and a privilege to lead…

  • PT Problem of the Day: New tram stops, new signs, out of date maps

    At the brand new tram stops in Swanston Street are these brand new signs. You can tell they’re new because they have the new, up-to-date “PTV” web site address on them. Problem is the maps are out of date. Just like older maps at other CBD tram stops, they still show bus routes that were…

  • PT Problem of the Day: Little or no policing of bus zones

    It’s common to see vehicles (of all types, not just taxis) stopped in bus zones. There seems to be little or no policing of this — no wonder this bus driver repeatedly beeped in vain waiting for the errant taxi to move, causing a delay to services along Melbourne’s busiest bus corridor, Lonsdale Street. And…

  • PT Problem of the Day: Level crossings cause delays to emergency services

    It’s not just pedestrians, cyclists, trams, buses and motorists getting delayed by level crossings. It’s also a problem for emergency service vehicles. As one paramedic told The Age last year (about the Clayton Road level crossing, near Monash Medical Centre), “If you go into cardiac arrest, think how much of someone’s brain is going to…