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danielbowen

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Transport blogger / campaigner and spokesperson for PTUA / professional geek.
Opinions are all my own.
Boonwurrung country, Melbourne, Australia

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danielbowen, to melbourne
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Blog: Four examples of misinformation - just on one line.
https://danielbowen.com/2024/05/16/misinformation-x-4/

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So it turns out at Patterson station the screens at street level hide trains departing in less than 5 minutes.
There’s no sensible reason for this. It takes about 30 seconds to walk up the ramp to the platform.

Video showing train listing disappearing off a screen

danielbowen, to journalism
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I'm not immediately seeing the Vic News angle on this one.

danielbowen,
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The Hamptons is different from Hampton, Vic 3188, and Hampton Park, Vic 3976.

danielbowen, to random
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I started writing this well before this morning's Queensland announcement...

Blog: Free fares: two charts
https://danielbowen.com/2024/05/26/free-fares-two-charts/

danielbowen, to queensland
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Queensland to slash public transport fares to 50 cents for six months from August. A brave experiment, Premier.

Prediction: It's never as simple as they claim. We'll probably see heavy use/crowding on the services with useful, usable timetables. Little difference on the services and in the suburbs and towns where PT is slow and infrequent - in those areas almost everyone will keep driving.
https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/100402 #Queensland #PublicTransport

danielbowen, to Trains
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This doesn’t seem optimal.
Near Huntingdale.

Train passing over rail line with a lot of mud under and around the sleepers.

danielbowen, to random
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Silicon Valley reinvents the bus (again)

“Customers can reserve a seat up to seven days in advance for the new service on a local shuttle that holds between 14 to 55 people, with other riders heading to the same place”
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/uber-unveils-new-shuttle-service-save-money-concerts/story?id=110297036

danielbowen, to random
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In comparing the costs of cars vs public transport, they excluded most of the costs of cars. Huh?!

'Though car ownership usually involves additional costs such as maintenance, registration and insurance, which can increase the total cost of ownership, for this story we only considered petrol and toll costs'

(And PT still came out cheaper)
https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/is-it-cheaper-to-drive-or-catch-public-transport-heres-the-truth-in-2024/

danielbowen, to random
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For anybody who uses , you may want to disable auto updates for the app (if it's not too late) - the new revamped S2 app breaks some important features including accessibility, search of local music libraries, alarms... and so far there's no official way to revert to the old version. https://www.stuff.tv/news/why-the-tale-of-sonos-revamped-app-is-a-cautionary-one/

danielbowen, to Canberra
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The ACT government has announced MyWay+, which will enable bank card fare payments, will be implemented by November. https://canberradaily.com.au/myway-coming-to-act-public-transport-by-end-of-year/

danielbowen, to iPhone
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This is 2.5 years old. Is 89% maximum battery capacity about what I should expect? 📱🔋

decryption, to random

i wish i was as cool as this guy

danielbowen,
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@decryption I bet he goes through a lot of mouses.

danielbowen, to random
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I wrote this in March - I'm glad I did, because it helped my thinking around the issue of transport and the cost of living crisis.

If governments really want to provide relief to household budgets, more station car parks or discounted public transport fares make little difference.
To make a big impact they need to provide options that make PT/walking/cycling good enough that a household can run fewer cars.

(Vic Budget day is tomorrow)
https://danielbowen.com/2024/03/16/transport-in-a-cost-of-living-crisis/

danielbowen, to london
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Sadiq Khan wins another term as Mayor of , despite the opposition to his policies to fight traffic and car pollution 👍 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68952475

ThermiteBeGiants, to random
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Lonsdale Street, despite being a major trunk route for buses travelling through the Melbourne CBD, has curbside 2-hour parking on weekends within the designated bus lane along it - and is a loading zone too, apparently. It should be a clearway 24/7, there’s no excuse even if it is paid parking.

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@ThermiteBeGiants @timrichards yeah. If Lonsdale St still had trams, they’d be in 24/7 tram lanes. There’s more buses along there than trams on most of the tram streets. It should absolutely have 24/7 bus lanes.

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@ThermiteBeGiants @timrichards yep! Cable trams to Spencer St (West Melbourne) and to Lygon St - now all run by buses. https://transitmap.net/melbourne-1934/

danielbowen, to random
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Blog: Armadale station - Almost a decade has passed since structural issues were found, but not as lot has happened
https://danielbowen.com/2024/05/04/armadale/

danielbowen, to random
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Blog: Old photos from ten years ago, April 2014, including this pic of a press release from 1997 found during a clean-up, announcing the very first official public transport web site for Victoria, "VicTrip".
https://danielbowen.com/2024/04/30/old-photos-from-april-2014/

tom_andraszek, to goldcoast
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My morning Gold Coast train was cancelled. The next one in 30 minutes. Lots of high school students will be late for school today.
No point taking the 725 bus as it takes 54 minutes to go from Coomera to Helensvale vs 5 minutes by train. The TX7 bus is more direct, but it doesn't run that early, and it still takes 47 minutes.

The almost direct TX7 bus route.

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@timrichards @tom_andraszek Sadly most of Brisbane's rail lines are stuck at 30 minute frequencies outside peak hour. It's a bit odd that they think it's adequate. (Not that Melbourne's 20 for most stations is adequate either.)

danielbowen, to melbourne
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A bit of expectation management at this tram platform stop ♿️😐

danielbowen,
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@timrichards I think you're right, every CBD street now has some low-floor services, apart from Flinders Street (except during special events) and the short segment of Spring St that's only served by the City Circle.

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@timrichards Unfortunately I suspect it’s permanent. I don’t think Yarra Trams is very keen on it.

danielbowen,
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@timrichards Isn’t that covered by the 70/75 or 30, depending on which street you’re on?

danielbowen, to melbourne
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ok yeah I can see why some of the locals nickname Highpoint as Knifepoint.
(Hope the people involved are doing okay.) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-26/second-stabbing-at-highpoint/103771114

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