Re: FW: Sun.15.7.18 daily digest
  Prescott

The vegemite artist at Fremantle should have been made to lick it all off.

Tony P

On Wednesday, 18 July 2018 10:16:31 UTC+10, rodsmith wrote:
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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.

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

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> 180715Su Metro Twitter:

> - North Melbourne.

> - Heidelberg - tunnels.

> - Camberwell work.

> - Glen Waverley bustitution.

> - Rosanna.

> - Sunbury Comeng.

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> Roderick.

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> 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.

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> 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-

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> sydney-metro-stations-20180715-p4zrki.html

> http://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/plans-for-first-set-of-11-000-units-to-go-near-sydney-metro-stations-20180715-p4zrki.html>

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> 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

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> s-street-station-for-major-events/news-story/d3cea857a309967c6a3de9084dfe9c8

> http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/new-led-installation-to-light-up-flinders-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

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> rm-metro-tunnel-sites-20180713-p4zr8m.html

> http://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-artists-performers-to-transform-metro-tunnel-sites-20180713-p4zr8m.html>

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> 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

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> ue-to-urgent-repairs-20180715-p4zrld.html

> http://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-train-passengers-delayed-up-to-an-hour-due-to-urgent-repairs-20180715-p4zrld.html>

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