Hello from an aeroplane somewhere between Milan and Singapore - I'm posting this from the air, lucky enough to be returning from a European holiday, my first time overseas since 2017. This time we ...

Have been busy, but here is a follow-up on a post from when I last bought a phone - an iPhone 13 in late 2021, which is now coming up to 4 years old. What's that in dog years? My aim [...] ...

How fast can you get a passport renewal? Pretty fast if you're prepared to pay. With about a week until the holiday, the travel agent pointed out that I had just five months left on my passport. I was ...

This page lists significant service changes to Melbourne’s public transport since 1993. Any additions or corrections welcome: contact me. Note: Some older links may now be broken. Try the Internet ...

A couple of newish things in the world of public transport info that have flown under the radar. Metro now has realtime info for rail replacement buses. Perhaps it's a soft launch because I can't see ...

I’ve been trying to sort out the status of all the level crossings from the various lists. Some are fully funded, others are funded for planning, and some are merely promises/pledges from the ...

One of the promises of the orbital Smartbus routes was to cater for crosstown travel. The Bracks Government’s 2006 Meeting Our Transport Challenges document said this: The Government will invest $1.4 ...

I no longer post on Twitter, but you can find me elsewhere. For slightly complicated technical reasons, most of my posts appear on Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads. Fewer on Instagram and Facebook.

There’s hidden meaning in some of Melbourne’s tram and bus route numbers. Below 150 is all trams, for a start. Above is buses. I suspect trams will move to 1 or 2-digit numbers in the next few years, ...

Another in my series of ten year old photos, this time from April 2014. The removal of the Springvale level crossing and construction of the new station was nearing completion, but alongside the new ...

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 ...