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Subject: Tues.5.12.23 daily digest, austerity issue
Roderick
Tues.5.12.23 Metro Twitter
Trains will not stop at Parkdale until mid 2024 (level-crossing removal work). Shuttle buses will operate Mentone - Parkdale - Mordialloc, connecting with trains. No access to station facilities or platforms during this time.
Public transport disruptions continue into December, January and February. Check before you travel at https://bit.ly/2JeTzJJ.
Buses replace trains on sections of the Hurstbridge line until the last train of Sun 18 Dec (works).
- Buses replace trains between Heidelberg and Hurstbridge until the last of Sunday 10 December. Plan ahead with replacement bus frequency and stop locations here: https://bit.ly/3T8WCoT
Buses replace trains on sections of the Pakenham line until the last train of Sun 10 Dec (works).
8.24 Sandringham line: Major delays due to a train fault in the Richmond area. Select trains may terminate/originate at intermediate locations.
- 8.40 Consider alternative transport.
- 8.44 clearing.
- 9.04 Trains will be running non-stop through Windsor (police).
- 9.10 This is not what your announcements are advising passengers at the stations and we have all sought alternate options.
- 9.11 Can you please let us know which station you heard this announcement?
- 9.12 I hear it too.
- 9.21 This announcement was heard at Gardenvale
- 9.24 we'll follow up
- 10.21 Trains have resumed stopping at Windsor
10.33 Flinders St pfm 10 lift closed until 16.00 (maintenance works). Listen to announcements.
11.37 Major delays (an equipment fault in the Werribee area). Trains may terminate/originate at intermediate locations.
- 12.00 clearing.
15.32 Sunbury line: Delays through Sunshine (police attending to vandalism). Trains may remain stationary for extended periods at or between stations. Stopping patterns may be changed.
- 15.43 Delays clearing. Trains may operate at a reduced speed between Tottenham and Sunshine & vv.
Frankston line: Buses replace trains city - Moorabbin from 20.40 until the last train (maintenance works). Express buses operate to/from Burnley, connecting with Lilydale/Belgrave/Glen Waverley trains.
Pakenham/Cranbourne lines: Buses replace trains city - Westall from 20.50 until the last train (maintenance works). Express buses operate to/from Burnley, connecting with Lilydale/Belgrave/Glen Waverley trains.
31.3.15 https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-south/vandalism-fears-remain-after-restoration-of-balaclavas-our-lady-of-st-kilda-mural/news-story/4a7a335e8f79e14552616efeace254ec [on the road-over-rail bridge]
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/infrastructure-advisory-body-gets-facelift-after-cuts/ar-AA1l0oGf
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/police-lock-down-windsor-as-officers-in-stand-off-with-man-20231205-p5ep1b.html
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/jeff-kennett-victorian-government-now-exists-only-to-serve-its-own-interests-and-its-mates/news-story/ed3edb4ddd1ceafa37bfceb5f03b2eb2 [just as his own did]
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/all-aboard-the-laurence-hewson-train-the-hairy-highviz-metro-trains-announcer-with-pizzazz/news-story/ca008b9c7e4e976bbfd941606061e6f7
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/major-police-operation-underway-in-windsor/news-story/fc24334ff087c2e0f2e52d8ee6ef28c6