The new (but yet to be fully complete) Union station in Melbourne’s east opened this morning, after 2.5 months of construction. It lies between the former Surrey Hills and Mont Albert stations and replaces them both.
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Hopefully it brings to an end the seemingly constant whinging about this crossing removal. Although I won’t hold my breath.
How funny is it that the Coalition is blaming Labor for the defects when they’ve been in power for over 10 years and treated the system like crap ready to be sold.
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Nine’s story says when they find the driver they’ll be stood down while Seven’s story says he’s been stood down with pay.
Which one is it? They know who it is or not? It can’t be both.
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They saved money by using three different companies but will this be costly in the long run?
Probably. It is a NSW Liberal thing to screw us over.
Not at all. This is a massive non issue.
Different lines with different needs and different depots. Why would they ever need to transfer rolling stock between them? The legacy networks with high degrees of redundancy and overlap are not how modern rail systems are built. Hence why the clearways projects tried to segregate the Sydney Trains system as best as it could…
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London has two Underground networks: the sub-surface Met, District, Circle and H&C lines which interoperate; and the other deep tube lines. Each of the deep tube lines is fully isolated BUT built to the same train width and electrical specs as each other.
Lets them transfer rolling stock around over the years as trains get upgraded. And maintenance would presumably be easier having a common standard for infrastructure.
Other than 1500 V DC vs 25kV AC, there’s zero other reasons to not build the rest of Sydney’s brand new network to common specs, even if different models of train are used and inter-operation doesn’t happen right now.
This driver should be fined and given a warning.If you’re driving a car and mucking around with your phone you’re fined $1000 and loss of points .
I suspect that the decision to repurpose parts of the rail network have driven the decision on the North West/City/South West line to go 1500 V DC and fleet sizing - wouldnt be surprising if Metro West ends up closer to the new Airport metro in terms of specifications.
While travelling on 2 buses to get to my appointment at the eye clinic yesterday ,I was checking to make sure either bus driver weren’t watching something on their phone while driving after that bus driver here in Brisbane was caught doing this.
Thankfully they weren’t 
I wasn’t allowed to drive there as they had to put those eye drops in that make your eyes sensitive to bright light
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And the next contender for NIMBY Of The Year is… 
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100% I holiday yearly at Tallebudgera - where the tram will go and there is so many signs saying no trams in talle.
its been known all along that the tram would extend to the airport and to carrara. this has not been a secret
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The light rail should make it EASIER to cross since it should eliminate two lanes of traffic…
That’s a ridiculous excuse to not have it.
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I can see why many Tallebudgera residents don’t want to see a light rail extension. It is a small suburb sandwiched between Gold Coast Highway and Pacific Motorway, and there is no land available to build another new road to provide relief to the traffic on the two very busy arterials.