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Tues.22.6.21 Metro Twitter
Aircraft: No ramp access to platforms until late 2021 (pedestrian-underpass works).
Flinders St: still with a lane closed for tunnel works.
Ginifer Station car park will be undergoing asphalting, compacting and line-marking work until Thurs  24 June. 87 spaces at the north end of the commuter car park on St Albans Rd will be closed. The rest of the car park will be available to commuters.
Throwing it back to our first look at TBM Meg. These machines were manufactured by Herrenknecht - a leading supplier of specialist tunnelling equipment based in Germany and assembled in China - before they were shipped to Melbourne in early 2019. (1/2)
17.21 Major delays (an ill passenger requiring medical assistance at Williamstown). Select trains will terminate/originate at Newport. Consider local bus Rt 472 for local trips Newport-W'town.
- 17.48 Delays ongoing due to an ill passenger requiring medical assistance at W'town. Trains may [ie will] terminate/originate at Newport. Consider local bus 472 for local trips Newport - Williamstown.
- 17.56 Clearing.
17.55 Pakenham/Cranbourne lines: Major delays (olice near Dandenong). Trains will be held at platforms. Trains may will terminate/originate at Westall.
- 18.37 Just got the ok at 18.36 to move trains.  Delays clearing.
Buses replace trains on sections of the Frankston line from 20.45 until the last train (maintenance works).
Buses replace trains Ringwood - Lilydale from 22.30 until the last train (level-crossing works).

JUNE 22 2021 Letters
* It's not too late to change plans as tram pushes south. A Parkes Way tram route would solve a lot of problems the current proposal faces, a reader says. Picture: Keegan Carroll
If we must have a tram/light rail it is not too late to adopt an airport to everywhere route along Parkes Way and Tuggeranong Parkway. This route has a much easier water crossing, over the Molonglo, doesn't disrupt Commonwealth Avenue Bridge or derogate from the ambience of the Barton area. There is plenty of space for tracks, and for lines off to Belconnen, and Woden.
This route is better able to accommodate some speed: slowness and low capacity being one of the detrimental elements of the tram obsession disorder which Mr Barr services to keep himself in power.
It would be so much cheaper to run battery powered buses which could start in service within a few months. We could also spend some money on psychiatric treatment for whoever it is inside the ACT government who suffers from an obsession with trains and with a Commonwealth Avenue route.
The Commonwealth Avenue-Adelaide Avenue route is stubbornly preferred because it is hoped to make car driving alongside the tram so unpleasant that cars will be abandoned. This will not work. Too many people need more route and timetable flexibility than slow track transport provides.
* COST OF LIVING IN A SOCIETY. Another letter complaining about paying for the light rail despite not personally using it; another letter writer who wouldn't pass year 10 civics. Why should my taxes fund schools I'll never go to and hospital beds I'll never stay in? You live in a society.
<www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7304069/not-too-late-to-change-plans-as-tram-pushes-south>

Push for commuter ferry services to deal with Melbourne’s traffic and public transport congestion. John Masanauskas June 22, 2021 [with ATN]
<www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/push-for-commuter-ferry-services-to-deal-with-melbournes-traffic-and-public-transport-congestion/news-story/0b58a5bb6222e6e60696f32fec1c1e01>

No 20 or 21.6 HS links; back issues down for a few days.