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 [...] ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were speed gains in the late-1990s, but just in the last few years, timings have been increased to as long (or longer in some cases) as they were in the 1970s, back when the network was running ...

While looking through the old photos from July and August 2015, I found a snap of a page from a document I got off the back of a truck in July 2015: an internal Metro document called the Strategic ...

Somewhere I saw some ridership stats for Amtrak, and I noticed with some interest that they’re not that much higher than V/Line, and lower than NSW Trainlink. So I decided to make a chart. (Source: ...

The TrackSafe foundation has data on fatalities in Victoria, and breaks it down by separating out suspected suicides. If we exclude those (on the theory that crossing removals have their biggest ...

The Campbell Arcade (aka the Degraves St subway) re-opened this week, and I just thought I’d post the quick video I did for the PTUA social media feeds. (Yes of course it’s got an advocacy message.) ...

Very busy at the moment, so I just wanted to highlight a couple of things via some recently published videos that are worth a look. This one on the Clifton Hill derailment is quite good at explaining ...

I’m falling behind in my posts of old photos from ten years ago. Here’s May and June 2015. The Degraves Street Subway has been closed for so long for Metro tunnel works that you might have forgotten ...

If you’ve been following my Brisbane holiday blogs, you’d know we caught a few buses. Brisbane once had a big tram network. They were all replaced by buses in the 1960s. By 1988 they’d built the CBD ...