There are some incredible sights coming out of the Bentleigh/Mckinnon/Ormond level crossing removal works, and I’ll post some pictures (and hopefully video) tomorrow. But in the mean time, early works on the “CD9” Caulfield to Dandenong 9 “Skyrail” crossings is also happening. I don’t have a big update for you, but I recently bashed out ... [More]
The month is almost over – here are photos from June 2006, continuing my series of posting ten year old photos. Glenhuntly station, which looks much the same today except for additional shelter and PIDs (Passenger Information Displays). Following the works in 2016 to remove level crossings further south, many would be hoping the crossing ... [More]
Major construction on my local level crossing removals has commenced. The boom gates at Bentleigh, Mckinnon and Ormond have delayed their last ambulance, bus and pedestrian. The last trains ran on Friday night, and over the weekend workers were busy taking out the rail line: overhead wire, track, signalling, ballast. And the boom gates of ... [More]
Happy Bus Safety Week! Quick, what’s the busiest bus route in Melbourne? Come Monday morning, the busiest bus route in the state will be in the southeastern suburbs — with more passengers and buses serving it by a long shot. And it doesn’t even have a route number. What is it? The Frankston line rail ... [More]
Pedestrians — Use other footpath. Haha just kidding, there IS no other footpath! You’ll have to use the road or the (possibly wet boggy) grass. Silver lining: it’s not a very busy road. (Ward Street, Bentleigh. The footpath is blocked for building construction. Not many streets in this area have only one footpath, but a ... [More]
A couple of experiences with online hosting services that I wanted to relate. Don’t worry, I’ll try not to let this get too geeky. NetRegistry domains For years I had a domain name custard.net.au associated with the company I owned that I used for contracting — this is a common thing in the IT and ... [More]
See also: my other posts from Singapore This post pulls together some things I saw on my on my holiday, together with information gleaned from a briefing with the Singapore Land Transport Authority (organised by chance courtesy of the Victorian Government when some of their people discovered they’d be in Singapore at the same time ... [More]
Our last day in Singapore. After breakfast we headed for the pool for a while. It was warming up but not too hot, and very nice in the water. Then a moment of panic. Where had I put my room door key card? It was in my bathers pocket, and… oh. There it is. On ... [More]
We awoke in the resort on Sentosa, with one more full day before heading back to chilly Melbourne. Breakfast buffet. I totally ate too much, and I didn’t even get to have an omelette (made fresh by chefs in the buffet area). But anyway, time to explore! Sentosa island has two cable car lines. One ... [More]
About a week before leaving for Singapore, I’d been in a meeting with some people from the Victorian government, talking rail tunnels and level crossing removals. I mentioned I was going, and asked what I should look at. Turned out they were about to send some of their people off overseas to exchange ideas with ... [More]
We were meeting my sister and her family (also in town for the wedding) to catch a shuttle bus to the Singapore Zoo for breakfast. Not just any breakfast – breakfast with the orangutans. Yep, you get to eat a buffet breakfast while apes frolic nearby. Have I mentioned that Singapore is the land of ... [More]
I’ve started publishing Singapore trip posts, backdated to the day they happened. Click here to see them. I found this amusing, way back in the day. This is a scene from an old episode of The Bill: “Bad Company”, from 1989, repeated on the ABC recently. Can you spot the production error? How many views ... [More]