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180715Su Melbourne 'Herald Sun':
- electricity prices.
- Flinders St station.
- letters, energy. with tdu.
- bus-driver strike.
- train surfing.
- PTV & myki websites.
- Fremantle, vegemite.

180715Su Melbourne 'Age' - Swanston St tunnel, murals.

180715Su Metro Twitter:
- North Melbourne.
- Heidelberg - tunnels.
- Camberwell work.
- Glen Waverley bustitution.
- Rosanna.
- Sunbury Comeng.

Roderick.

Sun.15.7.18 Metro Twitter.
Werribee line: All trains will run direct Flinders St - North Melbourne via
Sthn Cross, and not via the loop all day (tunnel works). [back to front; at
weekends they run clockwise anyhow].
10.13 Trains are now on the move with minor delays Caulfield - Frankston
after an earlier police 'request' [=demand].
11.12 John Buckland was on a passing train when he spotted the crew of C15
buying a newspaper in Hall St while on a break from shunting at the north
end of Spotswood in the early 1950s.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155038274/view [Boy selling newspapers to the crew
of locomotive, C15, at Spotswood, Victoria, ~1950] Call NumberPIC861/631 LOC
Box V9 Folder 5 Row 44 Bays 6-9 Created/Published[1950] Extent1 photograph :
b&w ; 11.8 x 16.3 cm. Physical Context PIC P861 LOC Row 44 Bays 6-9-Buckland
collection of railway transport photographs.
The pub in the photo behind the locomotive is still there today.
The siding the locomotive is on in the photo led to Melbourne Glass Bottle
Works; there were many sidings in the Spotswood area serving local
industries.
The area is listed by Heritage Vic. as the Spotswood Industrial Heritage
Precinct.
http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/22461/download-report
'We need a publicity photo of one of our Hitachi trains with no
background...'
'Righto, where's that bottle of white-out?'
18.59 Werribee line: Major delays (police near Seddon).
- 19.13 Major delays extending. Replacement buses may supplement trains
Newport - North Melbourne.
- 19.25 Major delays clearing. Replacement buses may still supplement
trains.
19.48 Delays are ongoing on the Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo lines (a
person struck by a train).
- 15.49 (Mon. 16.7) BOOOOOOOOOO He was a idiot.

Plans for first set of 11,000 units to go near Sydney Metro stations 15 July
2018.
151 comments.
Talking points:
..Up to 1,100 apartments over about 85 000 square metres.
..16 buildings up to eight storeys tall.
..A village park of about 2900 sqm.
..Office and retail space up to 9000 sqm.
..Tallawong is derived from the Dharug word 'dalawang' meaning apple gum
tree.
The first detailed plans for new units to be built on government-owned land
along the Metro Northwest train line have been released.
Tallawong Station south in Rouse Hill will get about 1100 units in an area
near The Ponds, with buildings up to 8 storeys tall. The plan includes
parking for 1015 cars and 1210 bicycle spaces. One of the "key principles"
of the development is to encourage greater use of cycling by residents.
A minimum of five per cent of the units will be used to provide affordable
housing for at least 10 years.
Tallawong Station south plans Photo: Landcom.
The original 2013 North West Rail Link Corridor Strategy recommended that
residential development close to the station should be three to six storeys
but changes to planning rules permit greater density and buildings up to 26
metres tall.
The NSW government's land and property development organisation, Landcom, is
managing the process and its managing director John Brogden said Tallawong
Station south is the first part of a 10-year plan to build about 11,000 new
dwellings around stations at Tallawong, Kellyville, Bella Vista, Norwest,
Hills Showground, Castle Hill, Epping and Cherrybrook.
The site where Tallawong Station south will be built in Rouse Hill Photo:
Supplied.
"The vision for Sydney Metro Northwest Places is to create diverse,
sustainable communities where people want to live, by providing essential
services, leisure destinations and public transport at their doorstep," Mr
Brogden said.
Site one will get about 360 units between 2020 and 2022. Site two is
expected to have 740 apartments and be finished between 2022 and 2026.
Comments on the project are open until August, 9.
Meanwhile, expressions of interest to build 500 units in towers up to 68
metres tall at the Hills Showground metro station closed on Monday (July
16). The site, on Carrington Road in Castle Hill, is the first part of the
Hills Showground project which has "potential for" about 1900 dwellings.
The Metro North West will have 13 stations between Rouse Hill and Chatswood,
4000 commuter car spaces and will open in the first half of 2019.
video: Sydney Metro West stations revealed. The Sydney Metro West mega
railway project will include an underground station at Westmead, delivering
more travel options to greater Western Sydney. Source: NSW government/Sydney
Metro
<www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/plans-for-first-set-of-11-000-units-to-go-near-
sydney-metro-stations-20180715-p4zrki.html>

New LED installation to light up Flinders Street Station for major events
Herald Sun July 15, 2018.
Flinders Street Station Light Show.
SPECTACULAR shows of colour will now illuminate one of Melbourne's most
iconic buildings after Flinders Street Station was fitted with hundreds of
state-of-the-art lights.
The latest rollout of upgrades to the station has included the installation
of 1100 lights, across 20km of cable, that can light up its historic facade
in any colour.
New pictures show how the technology will be used to decorate Flinders St
during major events and every light fitted with its own internal
microprocessor to allow for complex displays and shows.
The station can be illuminated in different colours after 1100 LEDs were
installed on it. Picture: HiVis Pictures The station bathed in colour.
Picture: HiVis Pictures.
Melbourne company APEC Electrical and their supplier Darkon hired a team of
60 designers and technicians to create the system which is the first of its
type to be used on a heritage building in Australia.
An additional 600 more lights have been added to the facade but the LED
bulbs will be cheaper to run than the original floodlights and will use only
a third of the energy.
Major Projects Minister Jacinta Allan said Victorians would continue to
notice changes to the station as the $100 million upgrade project continued.
"Flinders St has been the face of Melbourne for more than a century - and
our works will protect the station for the next hundred years," she said.
"The new light system is the finishing touch of an exterior restoration that
leaves the station looking as fresh as it did when it opened in 1910."
The Melbourne icon has been given a fresh look. Picture: HiVis Pictures.
The new lights are part of a massive facelift. Picture: HiVis Pictures.
Contractors have finished restoring the station exterior after spending more
than a year repainting the building and repairing broken fixtures.
More than 100 years of bird poo was removed from the roof earlier this year
and a new metal frame was built for the iconic clock tower.
Another team has been slowly restoring the grand ballroom as crews work to
undo years of internal damage that first prompted the revamp.
But not all changes have been welcomed by commuters, with hungry passengers
earlier this month discovering platform upgrades would mean the closure of
multiple fast-food kiosks.
FLINDERS ST STATION KIOSK CLOSURE STUNS COMMUTERS.
FLINDERS ST CLOCK LIVE AND TICKING.
TAKE A LOOK INSIDE THE REVAMPED FLINDERS ST.
<www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/new-led-installation-to-light-up-flinder
s-street-station-for-major-events/news-story/d3cea857a309967c6a3de9084dfe9c8
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Melbourne artists, performers to transform Metro Tunnel sites 15 July 2018.
A construction site may seem like an unlikely canvas for creativity, but
that's not the case in inner-Melbourne.
Work on the $11 billion Metro Tunnel project is well under way and is set to
increase across the city, so the state government is putting a call out to
painters, performers and poets to help keep the spots vibrant and visually
appealing.
Artist Beci Orpin in front of her mural commissioned by the Metro Tunnel
Project. Photo: Josh Robenstone.
Creative types are being asked to submit artwork, performance and event
ideas that will keep the areas from becoming no-go zones until construction
is completed in 2025.
Leading the charge is prominent illustrator and designer Beci Orpin, whose
giant collages already adorn boarding walls around the construction site for
the new State Library station on Franklin and A'Beckett streets in the CBD.
The nine-metre-wide installations are enormous pictures taken by
photographer Chris Middleton of collages Orpin painstakingly put together,
featuring brightly coloured papers treated with inks, pastels and pencils in
different shapes and textures, and some printed with old city plans foraged
from the State Library archives.
"It was such a wild thing, to see it up," Orpin said. "I grew up in
Melbourne so it was amazing to see it in a place I regularly cycle past."
She encouraged other artists to get involved with the project.
"It's such a good initiative," she said. I'm all about involving the
creative community in anything."
Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley said the project would
reinforce Melbourne's status as Australia's cultural capital.
"This program is a uniquely Melbourne way of approaching a large
construction project, harnessing the creativity of artists to help manage
construction impacts," he said.
For application details, visit metrotunnel.vic.gov.au.
<www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-artists-performers-to-transfo
rm-metro-tunnel-sites-20180713-p4zr8m.html>

Sydney train passengers delayed up to an hour because of urgent repairs 15
July 2018. 3 comments.
Sydney train passengers were facing delays of up to an hour on multiple
lines across the rail network on Sunday after staff were forced to make
urgent repairs to equipment.
The disruption to services from equipment failure at Granville on Sunday
morning quickly spread across the rail network, leading to delays of 45 to
60 minutes on the T1 Western line.
The delays to train services are worst on the T1 Western line. Photo: Kate
Geraghty.
Services in both directions on the Blue Mountains, the T2 Inner West and
Leppington, and the T1 North Shore and Northern lines are also experiencing
delays of 20 to 30 minutes.
And the disruption to services has since spread to the T8 Airport and South
Line.
The state's Transport Management Centre said it expected delays from the
urgent repairs to equipment at Granville to continue throughout much of the
day.
The major delays on the T1 Western Line have been compounded by the fact
that planned track work was already under way on the rail corridor between
Strathfield and the cental city on Sunday when the fault to equipment
occurred at Granville.
Transport authorities have urged passengers allow additional travel time,
listen to announcements and check indicator boards as stopping patterns may
change at short notice.
Sydney Trains apologised to passengers for the delays and said it was
working hard to restore services as quickly as possible.
<www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-train-passengers-delayed-up-to-an-hour-d
ue-to-urgent-repairs-20180715-p4zrld.html>