Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Jun 25th, 2009
Welcome To Melbourne Keilos & MTR
Good riddance Connex. Yarra Trams, I had nothing against you. I know that running a train system is hard and that we don’t know how the new company will handle our system and that their good repuation is with a much smaller system but it will just be good to see [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Mar 19th, 2009
Connex Screwed You
Melburnians, you’ve been screwed over significantly by Connex in the past with our failing trains and it’s crumbling infastructure and today it’s been revealed that people may be selling cheap Resold Metcards.
Want to save some cash for a system that has been failing and ripping you all of. Then…
********BUY RESOLD METCARDS********
“A Metlink spokeswoman [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News, Vent on Jan 29th, 2009
They’ve left it until everyone has gone home (well not home, because they’re probably still at the station), but it’s been announced that all travel on trams, trains and buses in Melbourne will be free to travel on tomorrow. The connex site at the time of writing this does not have an announcement. It’s mentioned in [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News, Vent on Jan 29th, 2009
Original Age story here
“On Tuesday Ms Kosky conceded that decades of underinvestment in the system had left it vulnerable to failure. She has been responsible for the public transport system since December 2006.”
What has Kosky been doing?
So now that Kosky is going on her third year as transport minister, was she just continuing to ride [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News, Vent on Jan 28th, 2009
Yep. Their trains don’t work and neither does their website. The small amount of information they have tells us what I guess we already knew. Cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. No chance of an ice-cream this time though, that was a once off remember. This isn’t a charity.
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News, Vent on Jan 28th, 2009
Fellow Melbourne people who take trains, I sympathise for you and exhibit some anger (since i still pay for tram tickets now and then) as the temperature rises to 43 degrees and Connex announces at LEAST 50 train cancellations.
Anyway, it’s all here along with a news video from this morning including snippets of morning commuters with [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Jan 23rd, 2009
Original story here
Bomb Connex
Everyone wants to do it, they want to bomb Connex and interrogate members of the company at top level before deciding on painful (but fair) tortuous punishments. But you can’t do that, you would go to jail. So let’s bomb a ticket machine instead.
Someone did what everyone else wants to do, they destroyed [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Jan 14th, 2009
We’ve had a pretty weak Summer thus far until yesterday when we finally received some scorching weather, one of our first hot ones. As soon as this happens our trains fail and people are left stranded in hot hot conditions.
Connex Continues To Fail You
Melbourne’s public transport, particularly our trains, are continually making commuters pay and [...]
Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News, Vent on Nov 7th, 2008
Orignal Article
On Oaks day it would appear that revellers would have been better off if they’d turned up on horseback themselves. Thousands were left stranded when the flemington racecourse train line along with 2 others were out of action. People were even walking on the train lines to get away from what would have been [...]
Posted in Vent on Jul 9th, 2008
This will be my first post of many public transport related woes because taking public transport in Melbourne is just fucked. It’s not the actual service that upsets me either (though we do have a pretty crappy train and bus system), it’s my fellow asshole commuters.
The mindless, illogical behaviour I see from tram and train [...]