Posted in Around Melbourne, In The News on Jan 18th, 2010
So everyone is celebrating today because Lynne Kosky is not just leaving as transport minister, but politics! Her reasoning? Because of health problems in her family. Whether this is likely the real reason is debatable. Sounds like another one of her lies to me.
Public Response
I’m only going to go by the seventy something comments following [...]
Posted in In The News, Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2009
It’s been a long time coming, the MyKi system to be introduced soon so let me summarize the main points THIS Age article covers.
Nobody knows when it will be released in Melbourne
Rather than buy an off-the-shelf smartcard system and adapting Victoria’s fare structure to suit, the Government opted to start from scratchContract delays
The US company [...]
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, Vent on Mar 4th, 2009
I can’t believe my eyes.
This article
Extra, extra…Lord Mayor, proves himself to be an idiot yet again
The Dishonourable Lord Mayor wants to ban taxis from the streets and limit them to Taxi ranks. Not Taxi ranks placed all over the city, but FOUR taxi ranks in the city. He wants to trial this for troubled Friday [...]
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 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 [...]