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From: Roderick Smith [mailto:rodsmith@werple.net.au]
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* <www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/treatment-for-glaucoma-takes-only-15-minutes-and-can-save-your-vision/news-story/ab4ed9d49d8c2627d4977444c6b0fc04> Certainly not transport, but heartwarming. Many posters may be sufferers, or know someone who is.

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170627Tu Metro Twitter - Richmond 1896 (MMBW). [after an early grade separation].

170627Tu - Melbourne 'Age' - standee airline seats: the Melbourne tram disease spreads.

170627Tu - Melbourne 'Herald Sun':
- energy, biofuel and coal. with tdu.
- tunnel disruptions.
- urban bus including one from our beloved M&MTB, also Box Hill when the interchange was more convenient than its replacement.

Roderick.

Tues.27.6 Metro Twitter
PTV: Winter workout: Semi-squat on tram bumrest; Climb Parliament stairs; ‘Is that my bus?’ brief jog.
Richmond station has changed a bit in the last 150 years...Outbound train heading to Pic-Nic (closed in 1898) & Hawthorn during the 1860s. (PTV).

Tues.27.6.17 Melbourne Express.
9.11 Route 11/12/48/109 trams have resumed along their normal lines following an earlier disruption.
<www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbourne-express-tuesday-june-27-2017-20170625-gwyemw.html>

Limited services, long waits and unreliability stops Melbourne from embracing buses.
Herald Sun June 26, 2017.
LIMITED services, long waits, and unreliability are three reasons why Victorians don’t like buses.
Unlike many other global cities Melbourne has failed to take to buses, shunning them in favour of more frequently running trains and trams.
But planning experts say the city must embrace buses if it is to have a truly integrated public transport system.
The Public Transport Users Association’s Daniel Bowen said more Melburnians would use buses if services improved.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR BUSES? TELL US BELOW A bus on the Clifton Hill-Ormond route in 1954. Picture: Herald Sun archive.
West Brunswick’s "Titfield Thunderbolt" in 1969, a Morris mini-bus that ran the shortest bus route in Melbourne. Picture: The Herald.
He said the city should learn from London, which runs frequent around-the-clock services across a vast network, giving buses traffic priority and using dedicated bus lanes.
“Buses may not be as smooth as trains and trams, but the main reason people don’t use them much in Melbourne is that most bus routes have very limited services,” Mr Bowen said.
“You’ll rarely wait very long for a tram, but most buses run only every 30 to 60 minutes, and people are put off by the long wait. Reliability is also an issue for buses: traffic priority is important to solve punctuality problems,” he said.
Mr Bowen said buses had proved to be very popular on those few routes where they run frequently.
“Lots of people catch the university shuttles, as well as SmartBus services around the suburbs,” he said.
“Our own successful SmartBus services can show the way forward,” Mr Bowen said.
“Buses that run more like trams, along direct routes at frequent intervals, and with good connections to trains, would be a big hit with the travelling public.”
Passengers catching the bus in 1966. Picture: Herald Sun archive.
Public Transport Victoria’s Nicholas White said services had been improved on bus networks in growing areas such as Wyndham and Cranbourne.
More direct routes and more frequent services better connected passengers with trains, allowing for more integrated journeys, he said.
“Buses are increasingly playing a bigger role as they become smarter, more direct, and more frequent.
“Over the last decade, bus patronage has soared from 79.13 million to 122.5 million annual trips,” Mr White said.
“That’s a phenomenal 4.5 per cent annual growth.”
Public Transport Victoria said that almost 10,000 trips were taken each day on popular university bus shuttle services to the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, and Monash University.
And Doncaster Area Rapid Transit (DART) bus services on routes 905, 906, 907 and 908 collectively accounted for more than 12,000 trips a day.
<www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/limited-services-long-waits-and-unreliability-stops-melbourne-from-embracing-buses/news-story/647bc49c47884774d21c31fcd5325f02>

VivaColombia budget airline wants to introducing stand-up flights. with tdu..
<www.traveller.com.au/vivacolombia-budget-airline-wants-to-introducing-standup-flights-gwz7l0>