Enthusiastic geographer. I blog about buses, podcast about Sydney’s history and documentarised the Macquarie River.
I’m an Aussie currently in Canada so be prepared for transpacific hot takes and midnight toots.
If I’m not on a train I’m probably skiing.
@paulwallbank @RM_Transit @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars yeah in terms of dealing with the actual grinding reality the best shot is improving run times and upping trainlink frequencies. vline style. focus on building patronage on the north coast and Canberra runs in particular, city to city traffic will come after.
@RM_Transit @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars meh sadly not so crazy. just business as usual for an agency that is focused on reducing costs rather than improving service/increasing revenue.
I’ve been on that many sold out trains this summer and yet the new order is just replacing rolling stock at roughly the same quantities.
Hey @RM_Transit not sure if you’re aware but nsw trainlink who run the syd-Melb xpt have placed an order to replace the xpts and it doesn’t include sleeper carriages. I think that would’ve been worth including in your vid because it really kicks the can on expanding sleeper service another 30 years down the road. It’s not insurmountable, but it’s difficult to see expanding sleeper service as a viable way fwd when we have brand new carriages that don’t have that function.
I think a bit of advocacy and awareness around that issue would be helpful!
@ajsadauskas @RM_Transit @fuck_cars yeah there is no doubt about that. Gladys came so close to getting it…
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I think it’s more a case of this whole interchange has been built for western harbour tunnel. ie the more lanes are coming…in 5 years.
@paulwallbank @RM_Transit @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars they’re much better in the sense that they’ve making sustained progress on both of those goals.