Yep:
The industrial action will impact Sydney inter-city and suburban lines only between 10pm on Thursday to 6am on Sunday.
Transport for NSW is preparing for alternative services, including buses for major events over the weekend and school services.
A 20-year maintenance deal with the Swiss manufacturers of Brisbane Metro has been approved by council which it says will save ratepayers money.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner told Tuesday’s council meeting that he had recently toured the Hess factory where the buses would be made and said the family-owned business had an impressive track record on electric buses stretching back four decades.
He said the electric, bendy 24m buses had a two decade lifespan and the contract included spare parts and maintenance support, with less complex work to be done at the new Rochedale depot.
Civic Cabinet Chair for Transport Ryan Murphy said diesel or gas buses cost $27,000 each per year to service, compared with estimated costs for the much larger Metro buses of $21,000 per year.
Mr Schrinner also revealed the updated cost of building Metro was now $1.55bn, up slightly from the recently-announced figure of $1.52bn. It was originally supposed to be $944m.
Labor Opposition Leader Jared Cassidy told the council meeting he was concerned bus station upgrades at Griffith University, Buranda, the Cultural Centre and King George Square were “desperately behind schedule’’.
He also claimed the Adelaide Street tunnel would not open until mid-2025. or even late next year, after Mr Murphy admitted on Tuesday that the Metro 1 and 2 lines would not be running until sometime in 2025.
It was revealed in Public Accounts and Estimates Committee (PAEC) hearings on Wednesday that five of the six train models in Melbourne won’t be able to drive the new Metro Tunnel, which will open in 2025.
Clutching at straws much? If not every train is capable of running on lines linking to the Metro Tunnel, why would the Metro Tunnel be compatible with them?
Out of Melbourne’s five current train types, the Comeng are already being phased out, and the Sprinters run on the non-electrified Stony Point line on the edge of the network.
The X’Trapolis don’t currently run on any lines linking to the Metro Tunnel, and the Siemens only run on the lines north of the Metro Tunnel so can’t go south.
The incoming X’Trapolis 2.0 trains aren’t planned to be used on the Metro Tunnel lines but this is the only case where compatibility might be worth considering.
This video does a much better job at explaining operational requirements that I can.
By any measure of how you count the train models - are they being so obtuse as to be counting the bloody VLocity trains, which can’t/shouldn’t go through the City Loop either?
It’s not a revelation - this has been known the whole time. If you went to manual train control you could probably run all the electric types through there, with only some doors lining up - but sufficient in an emergency or should you accidentally run through the tunnel.
Also very rich coming from the party that split the entire network in half, and had the “competing” companies introduce incompatible rolling stock - only in the last couple of years could you run an Xtrapolis on the whole network.
I wonder if they are preparing themselves yet for the shock horror that the SRL trains will be incompatible as well.
Yep, this story is an absolute beat-up. No surprise that it came from 3AW. It was always intended that the HCMT fleet will be only type of train to operate in the Metro Tunnel for multiple reasons.
Not sure why basic research can’t be done because this can be so easily refuted. I suppose they might have wanted the outrage and the usual “incompetent government” ramblings again, which they were successful in getting from some.
Mr Guy would like to see 40-year-old comeng trains run in the Metro Tunnel? Would those clunkers be even remotely compatible with the hi-tech signalling that Metro Tunnel includes?
Speaking of trains the first of 25 X’Trapolis 2.0 has been built in Ballarat.
The new trains are set to replace the aging Comeng fleet on the Craigieburn, Upfield and Frankston Lines.
Speaking of Comeng trains, Metro Tunnel confirmed on social media this week that a Comeng train was spotted entering the tunnel at South Yarra recently.
Smart ticketing to kick off on Brisbane council-owned buses in 2025 following delays - ABC News
for those unaware BCC is the largest operator of busses in SEQ. and the conflict of interest is a major issue and the reason why it took years to get an intergrated ticketing system in Brisbane, even decades after melbourne had one
Looking forward to those on my line!
It can’t be finished soon enough,it’s still a mess in Brisbane CBD
Me too on the Crazyburn line
I thought this was cute:
Adelaide Metro - Everyone deserves a chance to ride! 
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Agree - Adelaide Metro have been doing stuff like this for the past few months:
ha! that’s very clever!
I’ve noticed that some Brisbane City Council buses now have a glass screen around the driver’s seat.Too many bus drivers have been attacked by unruly passengers recently,
When I was over in Perth 12 years ago their buses had these protective screens installed,here there only just been installed on our buses
