Feeling sorry for passengers wanting to get on at Malvern, Armadale, Toorak, Hawksburn and South Yarra

Better ichange experience at Caulfield, only 2min wait, but train chokers & people left behind

I still don’t understand why city trains don’t depart from P2 for seamless interchange

With free fares coming for April, things will only get worse

#MoreServicesPlease

Tash gets it. Be like Tash.

Train arrives at Caulfield Platform 4. Alight and wait 2 minutes for a Cranbourne service.

Well mapped out, although this is the last shuttle so may as well have run it to Dandenong.

The trip home is better planed. Shuttles Richmond to Caulfield.

First real test of catching a train to footy with MM1. 10 min wait at Oakleigh.

Arrive at Caulfield. Have to swap from Platform 3 to 1. Should run city bound Frankston trains on P2 given it’s off peak.

Swap to Platform 1 and there’s a 12 min wait

Not a good start @metrotrains

I just boarded a Bus and within a few stops was checked for my Myki card by PTV staff.

Let there be more of that.

Data gathered from Myki’s help justify increased services, which is better for everyone.

Touch on. Always.

I already have Myki’s for all my kids that I paid $10 for. Why can’t they be converted to (or swapped for) youth myki’s instead of having to pay for new ones? 😵‍💫

After five years of consultation and collaboration, the first two stages of our very first dedicated cycleway opens in Oakleigh today, linking the Djerring & Scotchman’s Creek Trails, in time for the holidays.

Intersection due early next year. Dandenong to Scotchman in design.

Pakenham passengers have to catch Frankston line and change at Caulfield.

Train pulls up at Caulfield, doors open and the train we’re meant to change to literally departs.

Now an 11 minute wait for the next one.

This is how not to run a network.

I’m extremely excited to have been elected as Mayor of the City of Monash for the next twelve months

Sustainability will be a key priority of mine over this term; supporting households, businesses and local groups to reduce emissions

Congratulations to Cr Elisha Lee on her election as Deputy Mayor

Trains every 8 minutes at midnight?

I’d like to see that.

Today I learnt that the Montreal Subway, with rubber wheeled trains, is the forth busiest in North America behind NYC, Mexico City and Toronto.

Amazing given only 3 lines (yellow isn’t really a line).

#Rule128

For those wondering, this is how NOT to create a DDA compliant accessible stop.

Getting off the bus and my Apple Watch beeped. Looked down and it said double click to pay. Then I realised my hand was need a Myki reader. #progress

Absolutely. The key is to have enough services to cope with demand. Something that isn’t the case right now.

Clearly didn’t run enough. People being left behind at the platform.

Can’t see fans going past and backtracking. People have caught trains to Richmond and walked up that path passed Punt Rd Oval for decades. People are creatures of habit.

Even with a change at Caulfield (or Malvern) it will be significantly quicker than going in to the city and back out again.

Why would football fans go to Town Hall? That would require a much longer walk, or a secondary mode of transport.

Highly doubt it would be quicker, even with a change.

Dandenong corridor passengers forced to change at Caulfield for CBD trains today. Carlton plays North Melbourne at the G (ONLY 40-50k crowd).

By the time we reached Armadale passengers left on the platform. This will be the norm with #MM1

Better planning required by PTV & Metro #MoreServicesPlease

Educating parents at Netball, one bin at a time.

PSA: Lids CAN be recycled if you remove them, but not the cups themselves.

April & Aria's Relay Challenge April and Aria are running laps to raise money for Big Group Hug—so kids in our community don’t go without warm clothes, school supplies or blankets. Join us Sunday 1 June, 3pm at Warrawee Park Oval.

April and her friend are raising money for vulnerable and underprivileged children (Big Group Hug) by running laps of Warrawee Oval

Please consider supporting this great cause. Donations over $2 are tax deductible with EOFY just around the corner

april-and-arias-relay-challenge.raiselysite.com

Welcome to @metrotrains

We’re testing #MM1 so have closed Dandy between City & Caulfield

Directly after the footy we’ll make passengers squeeze on to an incredibly narrow platform & wait 9 min for a Frankston train

Don’t push there will be another 12 min after this one leaves

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.

The calm before the storm. How lucky are we to have such a magnificent local pool?

We almost didn’t. Council planned to shut this famous local institution 20 years ago, but it was saved by local residents and ratepayers in a massive community campaign.

What are your favourite memories?

Sydney Graphic: How do you move 1000 people to downtown? 1 train, 15 buses, or between 250-1000 cars requiring huge road space plays 1.37ha of parking space in the CBD.

We've been making the point for a very long time, in many creative ways, that better mobility in cities is fundamentally about space. If everyone takes too much space trying to move around, no one moves well.

Read this past article of mine in @planetizen.bsky.social
www.planetizen.com/node/68574

Front page of the December 2024 PTUA newsletter

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364 days till Christmas and people already have decorations up.

Unbelievable!

36 years ago, 24 people made the ultimate sacrifice at Nakatomi. May their courage and resilience live on, even in the face of impossible odds.

Yippee-ki-yay, heroes.

#NeverForget #ChristmasMovie