December 2024 – Daniel Bowen
3 days ago · Just a quick post, because I can’t believe the end of the year has raced up like this. My favourite things of 2024? Resolutions? One is that I’m going to try to blog more next year. No promises though. Hope you’ve had a good 2024, and Happy New Year for 2025 ...
Daniel Bowen
Here’s my regular post of old photos from ten years ago. This time, it’s November 2014, plus a few from October 2014 that I missed last month.
Here is the news – Daniel Bowen
Dec 4, 2024 · @B P Moffit, yes clearly there’s a trend away from mainstream media – newspapers, radio, TV. My view is I still like to dip into them; having more options to go looking for details is very good, but the MSM can give me a good overview of what’s happening.
News and events – Daniel Bowen
Happy end of lockdown, Melbourne! On a related note: Last week Texan Republican senator Ted Cruz weighed into the news that the NT government will mandate vaccines for public-facing workers: I heard similar sentiments from an Australian recently, in the context of Victoria’s vaccine mandates for permitted/essential on-site workers.
Council elections 2024 – Daniel Bowen
Oct 7, 2024 · Council elections are happening this month.. In a lot of areas there’s been a change. Here in Glen Eira we used to have 3 wards with 3 councillors each. Now we’ll have 9 wards with 1 councillor each. I’m not so sure this is a good idea.
Free fares: two charts – Daniel Bowen
May 26, 2024 · Free public transport has come up yet again recently, in an ABC online article (with a weirdly incorrect infographic), a segment on 3AW, and another on The Project.. And this morning the Queensland government has announced almost free fares – 50 cents – for six months from August. (Not entirely coincidentally there’s a state election in October.)
Transport in a cost of living crisis – Daniel Bowen
Mar 16, 2024 · Base scenario: Let’s imagine a hypothetical family: they don’t regularly use public transport, and they run two relatively new cars: one small and cheap (Kia Picanto S) and one medium (Toyota Camry Ascent). Small car $746 + medium car $1123 = $1869 per month. So, what could governments do to try and reduce these costs? Scenario 1: What if the government somehow managed to cut fuel costs by ...
New Glen Huntly station – Daniel Bowen
Aug 3, 2023 · This means for citybound trains, lots of people will be boarding the rear carriage. Unfortunately, with the platforms being longer than the trains, and the stop mark being right at the far end, up trains stop past the main point of entry, the stairs.
Metro tunnel reaches a milestone – Daniel Bowen
Jul 29, 2023 · A quick one: the Metro tunnel reached a milestone this week when two test trains entered the tunnel. There was the usual obligatory media release, media event and social media from the government.
Stopping patterns – Daniel Bowen
Apr 13, 2024 · One thing they can do is give each pattern a code and use that, like some overseas networks do. Or stick with the old arrangement, but simplify it to no more than one express section on each line, eg. a train running ‘express Richmond to Box Hill then all stops to Ringwood’, on the Frankston/Dandenong lines, the express trains could alternate between each, instead of the myriad complex ...
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