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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> From: Roderick Smith [mailto:rods...@werple.net.au <javascript:>]
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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
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> 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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