They need to remove the one at Park St near Royal Park. Shocker that one.
They have signs near it saying construction is starting soon - I assume that crossing hasn’t been scrapped?
There is a level crossing at Barry Road just before the Upfield terminus. The one at Camp Road was removed a few years ago.
I liked the plan to join upfield and Merida lines along the old inner city circle corridor and then connect to Metro tunnel 2 out to Newport.
The sky rail on the upfield line would have killed that. So maybe now it’s back on!
Metro 2 would link Mernda and Werribee, not Upfield.
The Coalition Government in my home country has announced that it will discontinue funding for free public transport for children and half-price fares for young people under 25 by the end of April 2024.
This decision will impact hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders and will result in increased bus, train and ferry fares, adding to the already existing cost of living pressures.
Most regions will experience a change in age-based public transport fares starting from 1 May.
This move to scrap the subsidies, which were implemented during the Labour Government’s era, was one of the commitments made by the National Party during its pre-election campaign. However, it is important to note that discounts provided by councils, such as those for tertiary and secondary school students, will not be affected by this change.
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- In short: Uber has agreed to pay $272 million to compensate Australian taxi and hire car drivers for loss of income and licence values.
- The settlement is the fifth largest in Australian class action history, the lawyers behind the case say.
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lol what? That’s crazy.
Competition is competition. I’ve never heard of a newcomer paying the competition that they’re trying to steal customers from for loss of income. Too bloody bad for Taxi’s. Improve your service so people don’t go to Uber.
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Inner city Brisbane is still such a mess with ongoing construction work to public transport infrastructure,work on inner city bus stations,etc ,that’s been happening for so long ,Cross River Rail and the new Brisbane Metro ,new long electric buses that will travel along the busways,eventually.It will be great when it’s finally finished
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Uber deliberately broke laws to force their way into a regulated market, undercut existing operators with loss-leading fare structures, only to turn around now and just be taxis with less responsibility - with drivers able to refuse any fare, no requirements of training and no requirements for a portion of disability access in the fleet - which is left to the rump of the taxi business that remains.
Taxi plate owners invested huge sums into buying into a business which was to their knowledge one that the government protected, with limits on the number of taxis operating to ensure that the market for rides was a sustainable career for drivers, as well as giving certainty to customers with regulated fare structures - not surge pricing.
That people like using Uber doesn’t mean their tactics of just breaking the law deliberately until public pressure saw their behaviour legitimised are appropriate. It’s right that the industry they destroyed for their own profit gets compensated.
It’s a good precedent to punish Uber for this, destroying an industry by burning through venture capital to undercut legitimate businesses should not be rewarded.
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But with the introduction of Uber it cleaned up the Taxi industry dramatically
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The whole taxi plate system is and was an artificial constraint on competition and it was consumers that suffered with overpriced, poorly run services as a result.
I do think the way the transition from that system was handled was quite poor from governments all around, and not helped by Uber’s aggressive actions in the meantime, so I do have a degree of sympathy for the individual owner-drivers affected.
The redevelopment of Ringwood East railway station in Melbourne’s outer east, as part of the removal of Dublin Road level crossing, will not include a new toilet.
Anyone noticing Sydney trains becoming a lot dirtier on platforms in the CBD and inside the carriages again under a new Govt? Seems to be less stringent on cleaning standards especially sticky floors and excess grime building up, especially in the Tangara fleet.
unstaffed stations generally do not have toilets. I don’t know what the situation is in other cities but I don’t think it’s unique to Melbourne.
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Same in Sydney, toilets are closed when station is not staffed.
Same in Brisbane and SEQ train stations,
The standoff is about a proposed closure of Progress Street level crossing in Dandenong South industrial area, on the Pakenham line, with the street to be cut into two. Under the proposal, access to businesses south of the level crossing will be via the extension of Fowler Road from South Gippsland Highway, rather than Princes Highway at present.
EDIT: there was a report in Dandenong Star Journal in August 2023 in which local businesses and council claimed their concerns about the project had been ignored by the Victorian Government.
Perhaps we just got used to so much cleanliness because of COVID, and now they’re cutting back on it since it’s now pretty much in the past?
Major Deja vu. I think all 75 level crossings have had a scare campaign very similar to this, all following the same script. The anti-development voices sure go silent once the projects are complete and all the lies and fear-mongering is revealed.