Friday, July 18, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Connex submission to Eddington report
A submission from Connex to the Eddington report. In particular Connex endorses the need for a rail tunnel to link the Caulfield and Northern groups. Item also covers what has been done to date to cope with surging rail patronage (including timetable changes).
Note: Item added retrospectively for posterity.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Some interesting comments on public transport maps are on Phin's blog to which the reader is referred for a fuller discussion.
I thought it worthwhile to provide further examples of multimode maps used in Melbourne and Victoria. They were not universal around the system and the pictures below are the main types available.
Many Melbourne railway stations had maps installed by a private company, with about a third of the space devoted to advertising. The maps themselves were high quality Melway types, showing trains, trams, buses and local streets. However while the advertising portion was updated the maps were not; hence there remain maps from Melways Edition 25 (1998) or older.
Some trams had an inner city travel map produced by The Met. This showed the CBD and near inner suburbs. It was a high quality map showing trains, trams and buses. These have become out of date and have been replaced by tram-only maps.
The Melbourne Public Transport Map was sold for $2.00 (or $2.20) at railway stations. This was a comprehensive network-wide map showing the whole metropolitan area on a single sheet. Hence while it covered all modes its scale was insufficient to travel to a particular suburban address without also carrying a Melway.
Two Melbourne-wide maps (dated 1992) are located at Flinders Street Station (Degraves St Subway and behind Platform 1). These were viewable when last visited (May 2008) but were underneath other material when the photo below was taken.
Below is a recent multimode map, showing train, tram and some bus routes. As far as I know there is only one on public display - it is inside the Met Shop in the Melbourne Town Hall.
Regional areas have had maps system-wide provided as part of the Viclink project. Below is Geelong's.
