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Roderick

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Wed.19.5.21 Metro Twitter
Aircraft: No ramp access to platforms until late 2021 (pedestrian-underpass works).
Buses replace trains Sunshine - Sunbury until the last train (works).
14.06  Pakenham/Cranbourne lines: Major delays (police near Carnegie).
- 14.21 clearing. trains may terminate/originate at intermediate stations.
16.56  Sunshine: A local PowercorAust outage is affecting lifts, lighting information displays and ticketing equipment. Trains and rail-replacement buses are operating normally through there.  Additional staff are enroute to assist.
- 17.10 power restored.
18.53 Werribee/Williamstown lines: Major delays (police near Newport).
- 18.58 clearing.  Trains may terminate/originate at intermediate stations. Laverton local trains may run direct from Newport.
Buses replace trains Blackburn - Lilydale/Belgrave from 20.30 until the last train tonight (maintenance works).
Buses replace trains Epping - Mernda from 20.50 until the last train (works).

* A TRAM that doesn't need tracks, Malcolm (S0/50, 18/5)? I'm an old Hobart boy from 1960 and can tell you trams without tracks were operating in the streets of Hobart around this time; they were called trolleybuses.
* THE plan to increase taxes in the state budget by some $2.7bn is coincidently a similar amount to the proposed expenditure on the Suburban Rail Loop. To my knowledge this project has not had a business case put forward to justify it Spending money on this project does not do anything to alleviate transport problems in regional Victoria.