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26 gunzels to Bendigo for a daytrip. In my wildest dreams I never could have dreamt that at the beginning of this year
Thanks for a great day out on V/line and the various attractions of the gold mine city
2023 has been great. Looking forward to 2024 V/line trips already
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The size of modern pick up trucks is really starting to get out of hand
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The trackless electric tram in the
@citystirlingwa
the 1st of its kind in 🇦🇺, should open the trial to the public next week. At a cost of only $3M/vehicle it’s ⅓-½ cost of light rail. 👏🏻
@PeterNewmanCUSP
CoS, Mayor Mark Irwin & all involved. For more see:
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American founding fathers: we believe all men are created equal and are entitled to life, liberty and happiness
Australian founding fathers: holy shit all I want is one rail gauge. God please please a national railway gauge. Holy shit we need it so bad it's a mess out there
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It's real
the SA Liberal Party has changed its logo
before vs after
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I'm not completely against advertising on buses as a concept, but the fact that up to 47.5% of route buses in Melbourne can have giant adverts covering practically every window is insane
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Welcome on board the next generation of Melbourne trams!
The new G class looks and feels brilliant. It's a tram made for Melbourne and I reckon it's great. Here's everything you need to know
a thread🧵
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My position on these really is that if you can't build a Real tram, just buy some battery electric articulated buses
Australia has gotten very good at manufacturing them over the decades, we know how to drive and maintain them, and they do 96% the same job as whatever this is
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Flying the confederate flag in fucking Dunolly, Victoria might be the saddest thing ever
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Melbourne put the correct sized windows on a train one time and then decided to never do it again
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This is a niche post, but I've always found it incredibly funny that US Light Rail systems actually have heavier rail (bigger physical rails designed to take larger trains) than mainline railways in Australia that have high speed passenger and big freight trains
The
#2Line
starts service on the Eastside in 2 days 🥳
Join the fun on Saturday! It'll be an exciting day, with activities at each station from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. - including a bouncy house, food trucks, live music, an interactive mural painting and more:
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Someone who holds a traffic sign and keeps workers, drivers and pedestrians safe around worksites probably contributes more to society than someone who makes $200k at a corporate email job honestly
Whistleblowers have revealed how the militant construction union has seized control of the taxpayer-funded major infrastructure program and driven up traffic management costs by $380m >
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This is my attempt at a gunzel political compass, I have to get in on the action after all
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Scientists and engineers have been hard at work for years, but they have finally built it. The stupidest looking bus
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The Castle is an incredibly funny and endearing film about suburban life in Australia where ultimately the Airport is probably in the right and that compulsory acquisition is an unpleasant but necessary part of infrastructure development
Happy birthday to ‘The Castle’, which premiered in cinemas
#onthisday
in 1997🎬
What’s your favourite quote or moment from the iconic film?
#NFSAOnline
#TheCastle
#AustralianFilm
#howstheserenity
#90s
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I think it's really important to remember that Autism doesn't define individuals, what defines individuals is your favourite train on the Melbourne suburban railway network
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If cities were rated based upon Banh Mi accessibility from railway stations I think Melbourne would win every day of the week
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I need to liberate Toronto
Sad streetcar missed the light because of a turning vehicle.
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To the Jacinta Allan staffer reading this I know you follow gunzel Twitter this is too specific
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Being in Wyndham Vale feels like you’re a part of someone’s awful Cities Skylines save
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Okay this one is still pretty funny. “Adelaide’s public transport system if it was an American city”
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Adelaide: railway golf course
Every good transit system needs its oddball tiny train
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I’ve heard enough about ‘trackless trams’, it’s time we talked about ‘tracked buses’
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Melbourne has no idea how lucky it was that the one and only time it tried a double decker train it was a complete unreliable disaster and the network thankfully stayed as single deck trains
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I've never seen a planned city before: tweeted from Canberra
I've never really looked at a map of Adelaide before. It looks kind of ...fake?
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Have you ever wondered where freight trains run in Victoria?
Well now I have a map for that, introducing the Victorian Freight Train Network Map
This is every scheduled intermodal and steel freight service within Victoria and connections to interstate destinations
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The evidence is clear
Sydney Metro gets less than a week of being Australia's official "newest" railway line lol
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How does 12km of new track, largely on an existing rail alignment, with just 2 new stations, cost basically the same as Metro Tunnel does? How on earth can $12 billion airport rail be justified?
The state government says ongoing delays on the Melbourne Airport Rail Link mean “cost escalations are inevitable” as new analysis shows how much the project could end up costing >
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I have never seen anybody claim Melbourne is a 24-hour city
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We need a royal commission into how the awesome railway crossbuck (the criss-cross on top) got replaced with some lame ass metal sign with a mere crossbuck impersonation
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Gunzels really be like "I miss the line to the INSANE ASYLUM"
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European shock and awe that Australia has such luxuries like free public water fountains, free public toilet facilities, free public showers at the beach. Incredible, I love having civic pride in this country
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I think a Canadian would probably faint if ever exposed to a real passenger information display
If all the other cities do something maybe its a good idea. Toronto next train screens - small font and hard to see next train time surrounded by tons of ads, Euro cities dedicated next train screen with JUST the next train times.
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I really love how every time they bring out the steam trains in Melbourne they also bring out the world's most braindead gunzels
Remember all, when seeing a train at a station, Stand Behind The Yellow Line.
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Creating your own fantasy rail map is a rite of passage in Victoria, so I'm proud to present mine
It features some aspects I have not seen in other people's visions, but the context is a strong regional and network-level focus
A rail map for a carbon neutral Victoria
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Jacinta Allan has a Reddit account and exclusively posts gunzel content to r/MelbourneTrains
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The city loop reconfiguration is a beautiful insanely technocratic project whose conception and benefits are rather hard to explain to the general public and I love her for that
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Adelaide Metro has opened a Facebook page. The first thing they posted is a meme
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I would like to say that r/MelbourneTrains has now been redeemed
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Once again thinking about how the only reason the Belair line has 15 minute peak frequencies is because some random guy emailed their local MP with their cooked up gunzel fantasy timetable for the line and then Adelaide Metro was like "huh, sure, I guess we can do that"
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Singapore airlines customers arriving in Sydney just to find themselves waiting for a transfer at St Mary's station lol
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X'Trapolis 2.0 | MY IMPRESSION AND YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
25 of these new trains will be built in Victoria, and enter service from 2025/6. They're gonna be great - I'm so grateful I got to speak to the project team and ask every annoying question under the sun
Thread🧵(1/13)
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Say what you will about V/line, they build some pretty good stations that just open out into fields
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New map of what the Melbourne rail network will look like after the Metro Tunnel is complete!
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Here's my new Melbourne fantasy rail map. I've taken a lot of feedback onboard and hope you'll agree this is a big improvement on my last version
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@GabrielledeVie
Victorian heritage railways have had it good FOR TOO LONG. How dare a steam train use coal or something like what's the angle here?
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THE BIG TRIP:
Saturday, August 19, prepare for a whole day of action packed fun as we traverse the entire Port Phillip bay using only public transport
Flinders Street. 10AM. Be there or be square.
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I think urbanist types hatred of park 'n' rides really goes too far. It is the job of governments to make public transport accessible, and not everyone has the luxury of walking, riding or taking the bus to the station. People, especially at the periphery often have to drive
The insane amount of money poured into this (often over $100k per car park) at the expense of buses, bike lanes, and public housing ought to be remembered as one of the worst legacies of the Andrews/Allan era.
Trashing the urban environment and sabotaging rail catchment.
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"will the suburban rail loop help people in Horsham?" No, but I can think of a project that will
This 🤡
@JacintaAllanMP
is kidding herself if she thinks Victorians voted for the Suburban Rail Loop. I didn't vote it & there's 1000s more who didn't either. Will this big expense dud of a project benefit anyone in Horsham, Rainbow, Maryborough or Orbost? She's a delusional fool
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Really awesome that in Queensland they're spending $3 billion to just duplicate a 6 lane highway with another 4 lane highway??? Yeah guys this one's going to fix traffic for sure 👍
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Latest images from inside the NSW XPT replacement - now called the "R Set"
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'on the Australian mainland' is the greatest tell for something being slightly better in Tasmania
Queensland has the only free Ambulance service on the Australian mainland.
We're going to keep it that way – and keep it in public hands too.
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Is the large concrete bridge that just separates cars from trains in the room with us right now?
Many of the latest SkyRails across Melb are basically large concrete bridges that separate cars from trains, and that’s about all. I hope the Brunswick SkyRail, if ever built, is designed well with proper community involvement, to realise the possible benefits /4
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Guy who doesn't celebrate Australia day because it represents the oppression and invasion of First Nations lands versus guy who doesn't celebrate it because it represents the founding of NSW
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I would like to thank all NSW taxpayers today. This weekend TfNSW has made all their trains free... including the ones in Victoria!
A lovely ride on the XPT is instore today
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These people under no circumstances can stop thinking about Melbourne it's kind of incredible
The Sydney metro going deep under Sydney Harbour at speed will be hard to explain to oppressed peoples who, because of chronic socialist mismanagement, cannot even get to a major international airport by a basic train … nonetheless we all have to be understanding here
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BREAKING: Victorian Government adds Ghan to V/line fare cap
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It’s really nice of the bushfire to respect state boundaries like that in Western Australia
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Shepparton is about 200 kilometres from Melbourne, and receives 5 weekday and 3 weekend return services to Southern Cross. From later this year it will receive 9 return services on weekdays
Just another example of Victoria's excellent regional rail network, all for just $9.20
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@declanmartin75
I declare I'm running for mayor and I promise to expand the free tram zone to cover this amount of the network
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European tram driver championships taking place in Adelaide this year!
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we need an alcohol free queer space for adults with no friends to meet each other
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DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS NEW TRAIN?
Ask me and you’ll hopefully get answers, I’ve been invited by DTP to come look at the X’Trapolis 2.0 model and give feedback
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It's incredible Sydney and Melbourne can both build giant public transport and freeway schemes at the same time, but Melburnians are so committed to pessimism they think these infrastructure investments are worlds apart, when they're effectively the same
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The V/line VLocity is one of the greatest success stories in Australian rail history, but we've been building them for 20 years now, with incredibly few changes
Isn't it time we thought about a new generation of regional trains? Incorporating modern tech and electrification?
PT Min Gab Williams visiting Alstom in Dandenong to mark beginning of work on 23 new VLocity trains for the Melton line.
Funded in last year’s budget.
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I think there may be a small design flaw in Adelaide Metro's new automated pedestrian gates
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Wow when they say that the BCC is the largest local government area they really weren't lying hey
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Outspoken independent
#Brunswick
-based councillor
@JamesMConlan
will not seek re-election later this year, saying he has run out of energy to serve another four-year term.
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Okay so they just gave up that easily hey?
Kind of hilarious how few allies Melbourne Airport actually has on this matter. Nobody agrees with their stupid demand that the airport station must be underground
What are they supposed to do at this point? Do they really have it in them to block it forever?
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Ah, but if only the government wanted to do something about that? Surely the massive investment would be welcomed by everyone who understands how important it is to solve car dependency. Pic unrelated
Australia's biggest city has a car problem. What should Melbourne do to fix it?
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