Why it's so important that governments bring our public transport up to scratch. Lavish investment in roads at the expense of public and active transport got us into this mess. Other cities show flipping this over gets results. My article in @theage.

[Blog] Quietly released on Grand Final Eve, this new plan charts a direction for Fishermans Bend transport. Here's a look at what's in it. https://t.co/CaO5p1eF8n #springst

Welcome to Grand Final Eve Public Holiday. While most public transport will be running a Saturday service, this isn't so for buses that may or may not run. TV website is spreading nonsense with text different to published timetables. https://t.co/zIQAlS6Axe A 🧵 #springst

Statement from @BicycleNSW welcoming the NSW govt decision to only ban high risk ebike attachments and not all ebikes from PT. Has a message for Victoria which is considering a full ban. #springst

Some great bus service uplifts coming to the northern suburbs next month. Funded through 2025's budget and/or GAIC. More here. https://t.co/3cJXxKPZCB #springst

⚠️More severe bus disruptions today in Ballarat (none running!), Geelong (many routes not running), Melbourne (reduced services). Details at the link below. If CDC cannot resolve this dispute, the State Government must intervene to help get it settled. https://t.co/xNSbP09Kcc

By presiding over a massive fall in Myki touch-on rates, the state government is losing revenue it could have put in to better bus services. Pleased to assist with this @abcmelbourne item on bus fare evasion. https://t.co/sKEZUauK1o #springst

interestingly Adelaide really seems to do lighting right the CBD has soft yellow lighting all over, the warm shade that went away for a bit with halogens but is now widely available with LED lighting real contrast to Melbourne, which has some nice lights but it’s very haphazard

[Blog] Did you know that Melbourne once added 8000 new bus services per week in just eighteen months? Let's go back to 2005 to learn how we did it then - and what's needed to repeat such a bus service uplift today. https://t.co/NVwphv1Voq #springst

You would need to widen this street by six lanes to move as many people by car as the BRT has the capacity to. https://t.co/AfvvlpJnDh

New station, new housing, level crossing gone but same old bus frequencies. Only bus serving busy Bell St at Bell Station on weekends is Route 514 running every 40 min weekend daytime & 60 min evenings. Even some semi rural & regional routes have higher frequency. #springst

Agrivoltaics goes to India & globally! Farmer grows turmeric under PV. "My income has tripled, and I sleep peacefully without the stress of climate or crop failure." Sun Master psys him $1,200 annually per acre & $170/month to maintain solar panels. https://t.co/W11ImdLjEZ

1100 weekly trips are being added to Latrobe Valley bus routes from tomorrow! Bigger than any upgrade in Melbourne. Whether it's busy Bell Street Preston or the back streets of Moe, Victoria's PT has one planning aim - every 40 min everywhere. https://t.co/U2imrMgXnP #springst

Would you like to see more services on the 506 bus route, which goes through the north of Yarra? If so, consider adding your support to this petition: https://t.co/K5LvtKzzxh

🚉🎂Happy 171st birthday to Flinders Street station, first opened 12th Sep 1854! Soon some lines will move to the Metro tunnel, adding network capacity. Govt must follow through with investment in more trains more often - the key to a more useful usable network for #Melbourne.

New DTP Strategic Plan now out. The word 'elephant' is mentioned 12 times. Buses just once. Neither the roll-out of a frequent multimodal PT network across Melbourne nor bus network reform feature in the 17 2025-29 priorities at all. It's here: https://t.co/GFKSspcQYb #springst

Flashback to May 2011 where @metrotrains added 635 weekly trains, or about 5%, to its existing timetable. https://t.co/3tupdn9iN6 Govt interest in adding service has fallen in recent years but a 5% off-peak boost today could almost eliminate 30-40 min gaps all week. #springst

Worst tram stops in #Melbourne, as voted by Reddit users: Racecourse Road, Newmarket Queensway. Windsor Burwood Highway, Burwood Kingsway, Southbank All could do with improvements to accessibility, shelter, seating, space and safety. Have you got others to nominate? Let us know.

I’m not surprised the IPA rolled this out. When your numbers are shaky, the foundation collapses fast. In politics, that means lost ballots, lost contests, lost elections. No accident the Federal Labor Government is to this day, dominant in the polls. There is more coming on

Not entirely surprising, given that without heavy rail or light rail the campus would be nearly an hour from either Parkville station or the Swanston tramstop. That's almost equivalent to a campus in Tarneit or Roxburgh Park (and which are more deserving of university access).

Good connections make public transport more useful for more people. But buses running every 30 minutes can't efficiently connect to trains running every 20 minutes. More frequent services can fix this. #MoreServicesNow