Route length: Longer routes probably help a bit, giving Sydney’s train network a bigger footprint across the city, though Melbourne actually has more railway stations. EDIT 5/6/2021: there’s revised ...

(Converted from Excel to HTML using Tableizer — very handy!). Sources: State Labor: Only Labor will remove 50 level crossings Coalition’s anonymous blogger “SpringStSource”: Level crossing removal by ...

Punctuality is affected by different factors. The Sydney page has some good information listing some of them, which apply on any system.. This comparison isn’t perfect of course, thanks to the ...

Free public transport has come up yet again recently, in an ABC online article (with a weirdly incorrect infographic), a segment on 3AW, and another on The Project.. And this morning the Queensland ...

Off-peak fares. As a further incentive for people to stagger peak trips, they’re going to introduce off-peak discounts: 30% off Myki Money fares for trips that include Zone 1, between 9:30am and 4pm, ...

Happy new year! By request, here’s a follow-up of last year’s post comparing public transport patronage in Australia’s biggest capital cities: now ranked by boardings (trips) per capita.. Public ...

Here’s something I learnt yesterday: There’s a small town called Eucla, WA, near the SA border. Population: 53. Get this: It has its own timezone, which is halfway between Perth and Adelaide time. The ...

Here’s an update on the state of level crossing removals. I’ve done these lists before: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2014. They’re all based on the 2008 ALCAM list, which ranked Victoria’s level crossings by ...

This is the blog of Daniel Bowen. It’s been running on the web since about late-1996. (Posts going back to 1994 were pulled from the Toxic Custard mailing list. More information.) Over time it’s ...

From there we headed north via 333 bus to Lutwyche, to visit the family plot in the cemetery there. Then we walked south to Stafford, around where our Uncle Frank used to live.It’s not far as the crow ...

Adelaide’s tram network is confusing. It used to be just the one line to Glenelg. Now they confusingly listed as four different acronyms on the web site (why not route numbers?), but the route map and ...

This is what we’ve been waiting for for some time. This week the State Government finally revealed some of the train service upgrades that will accompany the Metro Tunnel.. As part of the same ...