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 [...] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As noted previously, Sydney does particularly well with its train network, in part due to better frequencies, and in part thanks to the train network serving the busiest centres – which seems to be ...

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 ...

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.

Since our last exciting episode, PTV have made a number of revisions to the draft rail map. Here’s the latest version: As I said back in April, I really like this new design, which better represents ...

Many years ago the German city of Munster set up a photo comparing the road space taken by people in a bus, on bikes, and in cars. Earlier this month the Cycling Promotion Fund recreated that picture ...

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 ...