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Subject: Mon.15 & Tues.16.5.23 daily digests, austerity issues
Roderick
Mon.15.5.23 Metro Twitter.
Flinders St: still with a lane closed for tunnel works?
Because of tunnel works, Degraves St subway at Flinders St is closed until 2024. No platform transfer via Degraves St subway. Passengers should use Elizabeth & Swanston St entry/exits. Campbell Arcade remains closed to 2024. Platform interchange via that subway was available until mid 2022.
Buses replace trains on sections of the Lilydale/Belgrave lines until the last train of Sun.21.5 (works).
Frankston line: Trains will run to an altered timetable until mid 2023 (works). Trains will stop at all stations Caulfield - Cheltenham all day [finished?]
- Trains will not stop at Glen Huntly until Aug.2023 (works). Shuttle buses operate Caulfield - Glen Huntly - Ormond. No access to station facilities during this time.
22.41 Pakenham line: Major delays (police attending to trespassers in the Narre Warren area). Trains may terminate/originate at intermediate locations.
- 22.54 clearing.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/commuters-to-use-credit-cards-to-pay-for-fares-on-public-transport-as-myki-contract-replaced/ar-AA1bbz09
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/farewell-myki-we-will-remember-you-only-too-well-20230515-p5d8if.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/myki-operator-loses-contract-us-specialist-to-overhaul-ticket-system-20230515-p5d8h0.html
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/uq-bus-ban-puts-giant-handbrake-city-s-public-transport-experts-say-20230515-p5d8gc.html
https://www.exploretravel.com.au/story/8193155/pulling-out-all-the-stops-rail-revival-in-country-nsw
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/revealed-victorias-most-unsafe-public-transport-areas/news-story/7a4f2a55e8117ef0e442b75a3e506cbc
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Tues.16.5.23 Metro Twitter
Flinders St: still with a lane closed for tunnel works?
Because of tunnel works, Degraves St subway at Flinders St is closed until 2024. No platform transfer via Degraves St subway. Passengers should use Elizabeth & Swanston St entry/exits. Campbell Arcade remains closed to 2024. Platform interchange via that subway was available until mid 2022.
Buses replace trains on sections of the Lilydale/Belgrave lines until the last train of Sun.21.5 (works).
Frankston line: Trains will run to an altered timetable until mid 2023 (works). Trains will stop at all stations Caulfield - Cheltenham all day [finished?]
- Trains will not stop at Glen Huntly until Aug.2023 (works). Shuttle buses operate Caulfield - Glen Huntly - Ormond. No access to station facilities during this time.
5.42 Upfield Line: Major delays (an equipment fault in the Moreland area). Trains may terminate/originate at intermediate locations.
- 6.30 Replacement buses are in position to supplement train services.
- 6.55 Major delays clearing. Trains may be altered.
10.42 Mernda/Hurstbridge line: All trains direct to/from Flinders St (an ill passenger requiring Ambulance assistance at Southern Cross. From loop stations, take a train from pfm 3 to Flinders St.
- 11.28 loop running has resumed.
18.13 Frankston line: Major delays (an ill passenger requiring medical assistance at Cheltenham). Trains may terminate/originate at intermediate locations.
- 18.20 Should we be looking at other ways of getting home?
- 18.22 we've received information that outbound trains will resume soon. Citybound trains will remain delayed.
- 18.29 Major delays clearing.
19.12 Sunbury line: Major delays and clearing after a train fault at West Footscray.
Frankston line: Buses replace trains Caulfield - Moorabbin from 20.45 until the last train (works).
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/uq-s-cross-campus-bus-ban-at-odds-with-its-master-plan-20230516-p5d8ot.html
https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/lendlease-s-town-hall-station-to-tap-into-melbourne-cbd-beat-20230516-p5d8pw
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8196325/light-rail-canberras-most-popular-public-transport-route
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/plans-revealed-for-prime-development-at-town-hall-place-in-melbournes-cbd/news-story/d2afed604d2c32eaacf23c953fbf12a2
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/melbourne-airport-rail-project-hits-contract-speed-bump/ar-AA1bhDlH
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/car-stuck-on-train-tracks-in-sydney-s-west/vi-AA1bhD2Q