Melbourne Ice?? Might as well have a football team called the Melbourne Grass

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.

Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.

A thread.

Are Australian traffic controllers really earning $200k per year? Politicians and news outlets claim Australian traffic controllers are earning $200,000 per year. The ABC has crunched the numbers to see how credible these claims are.

It’s taken nearly 18 months of every mainstream news outlet, commentator and politician claiming traffic controllers somehow get paid $200,000+ a year for a journalist to actually see if it was even mathematically possible.

And surprise surprise, “industry modelling” was basically made up.

A beautiful story

People like to talk up big bus reform but sometimes its interesting to see just how little needs to change to make a good bus route a great bus route... For instance a mere four (4) extra interpeak services for the popular 630 would make this a turn up and go bus route!

Malvern urban forest- not a bad spot for the middle of the suburbs!

Really cool diffraction pattern I get from the gap above my roller blinds #bluesci

ALL OF THEM???

Might be due to this? But you would think the regular services would still go via Warrigal road and Oakleigh station

Just saw a 903 lost and confused on Murrumbeena road

The surprising history of hook turns! YouTube video by Philip Mallis

TIL from the new Philip Mallis video that on a bike you're allowed to hook turn at any intersection! Something I do anyway because it feels a lot safer, and cool that it's reflected in the road rules. Video: youtu.be/813AJZdX5HY?...

Here’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility.

Fewer cars.
Less driving.
More inviting mobility choices.
Better communities and cities.

These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.

Rode the Eastlink trail and Dandenong creek trail from Dandenong down to Carrum beach. Featuring THE BIRD and a comically large number of reflector poles