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Subject: Sun.10.1.21 daily digest

Roderick

Sun.10.1.21 Metro Twitter
Bridge Road tram-track renewal works, 11pm Sunday 3 January to 5am Saturday 16 January.
Craigieburn line: Glenroy level-crossing-removal works. Glenroy Rd closed at the level crossing to 28 Feb. Detours via Gaffney Street and Camp Road. Buses replace trains on sections of the line until 22.00 on Sat 16 Jan.
Lilydale/Belgrave lines: Buses replace trains Parliament - Camberwell from 1.10 Sat 9 Jan until the last train of Sun 10 Jan (maintenance works). Buses run to/from Richmond during Night Network hours. [resulting in waits of 59 min?]
Buses replace trains Richmond/Caulfield - Glen Waverley from 0.55 Sat 9 Jan until the last train of Sun 10 Jan (works). Take a Pakenham [or Frankston?] train to Caulfield for express buses (which do not operate during Night Network hours).
Pakenham/Cranbourne lines: All trains will terminate/originate at Caulfield from 10.00 to 19.30 today (works).  Change at Caulfield to/from Frankston trains.
Werribee/Williamstown lines: Buses replace trains North Melbourne - Newport/Williamstown from 20.30 until the last train (maintenance works).
Pakenham/Cranbourne/Frankston/Sandringham lines: All trains to/from Flinders St from 21.00 until the last train (maintenance works). From loop stations, take a train from pfm 3 to Flinders St.

Sun.10.1.21 Melbourne Herald Sun.  Letters:
* WHILE we keep hearing about the toxic soil under the proposed underground train lines, I haven’t heard anyone ask what is the contamination, how toxic is it, what is it, and how on earth did it get there if it is under housing?
* Platform for disaster. ON a recent return trip to Melbourne on V/Line, we noted there would have been 50 per cent with no masks, 25 per cent with them either under their chins or over their mouths only, and 25 per cent fully complying with COVID rules.
Not once were these noncompliers inspected. Just hoping the coughs heard were from those fully masked. The return journey was also a fully packed train so no chance of social distancing. No wonder Dan had to treat the public like imbeciles during the second wave.
Please follow the rules, people, as I don’t wish to catch the virus from your stupidity.
* VERY few masks on my train last week. Expressing my concerns to PSOs, their response: “What would you like us to do about it?”