@MiddleMoney

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I'm bored tonight so I asked AI to do its best and compare patronage public transport patronage across different cities/metros. Some of these numbers are probably slightly off but the best I managed to get them with some fine-tuning and with the limitations of AI.
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Probably for the best tbh. This looked like a timetable, travel time aside, there was no frequency increase, this looked like a massive change on the massive cheap so was hard to please people. FUND SERVICE INCREASES TOO
.@samlutd2h
Great, so still sporadic trains on the South Coast Line and hour-long waits at night because a few suburban commuters complained about their trip being a little longer
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The only line that would have got increases was the South Coast and they half arsed it there too tbh, should've done full express services into Central from Wollongong every 30 minutes rather than whatever crap they wrote into the timetable.
Federal Labor promised 100,000 of this too in the 2025 election. How's construction going? Are they even doing planning and land purchasing to at least start with?
ethan ✨@hillfolkAUOct 20
Victorian Labor has announced they're going to build 25,000 homes for first home buyers via their public developer.
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lol
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youtube.com/watch?v=I8awE_xE…

Is this Sydney's most dangerous bus route? | 9 News Australia

For years, Balgowlah locals have been complaining about the 172 Exp...

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It went to King of Prussia when I visited Philly. It seemed online like it was one of the more lively malls in the US. BUT dead ass mall vs Chadstone or Macquarie Centre.
Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesiasOct 11
The King of Prussia Mall is a true land of abundance, just gotta pop some apartment towers on top of these parking structures.
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*** I Omg wtf
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Hello Melbourne
Yozora💫🦝 - Vershion
@YozoraChOct 11
There is something uniquely Australian about thanking the bus driver while fare evading at the same time
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They really need to start counting the transposals on the Newport Group-Sandringham as a partial cancellation like bypassing the city loop. This is ridiculous as it was too when it was Frankston.
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That might change operations incentives.
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100% agree even if it's just a very limited part of Brisbane.
cosmic jester@cosmicjesterOct 8
People from Sydney and Melbourne don’t realise this is very good actually
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If anyone wants to do a Fintech thing in Aus, now would be a good time to start doing something to fully leverage the NPP PayID and PayTo platforms. The current banking app implementation is a bit of a joke and people dont want to pay foreign card scheme costs.
dan nolan
@dannolanOct 8
Replying to @taipan168
it's going great! our daughter's gymnastics sent out an email to everybody saying please switch to paying with bank transfers as the surcharge costs are hammering their business
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Tbh, this probably isn't really surprising, visiting the US, I think going down the path dependency that cars and highways has forced is now probably the least bad option. If I was in gov, I wouldn't want to spend billions to build transit unless you already have a baseline.
Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈
@JosephPolitanoOct 2
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
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And of those places that do have a baseline, it's really less than dozen of the 50 metro areas with over 1 mil people. The rest, just give up already. Anglosphere costs has blown up any hope of a transit revival there.
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Rare Rees-Mogg W. But then frankly anyone would come out of a conversation with that fuckhead looking like the sensible one
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHollerOct 2
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
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Yeah I think I'll take Melbourne enjoying fare evasion en masse vs this shit.
Lord of the Dance@trashyhonkyOct 1
The kids killed it Incredible but this whole week of a farewell tour was doomed from day one Unbelievable but the kids caused these trains to be withdrawn from service, twice now. Not even security guards could stop them
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This looks like a ranking of the most awesome states/provinces to be in among the western world.
Gideon Rozner
@GideonCRoznerSep 27
VICTORIA - THE WORST-MANAGED STATE IN THE WESTERN WORLD? A recent study of 366 state and regional administrations across 22 western countries set out to determine which state is the WORST-MANAGED in the western world. The answer? Victoria.
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These capacities seem a bit low no wonder TTC costs are through the roof. 12m 2-door buses in Australia are rated for ~75pax typically but sometimes over 80, artics up to 110, and for trams single unit Melb E-class or Sydney Citadis over 200pax.
Moaz Ahmad@yyzMYASep 27
There are many reason why this is happening (including a reduced farebox recovery ratio), but one thing that helped is having 220 articulated buses (18m) & 264 streetcars (30m compared to 248 of 15m). These longer vehicles reduce the cost for the next additional passenger trip.
TTC surface vehicle capacity. Source: TTC 2025 Operating Statistics.

ALT TTC surface vehicle capacity. Source: TTC 2025 Operating Statistics.

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Just saw a bunch of people tap on on the bus. Then I realised they were wearing Brisbane or Fremantle gear. Clearly not living in Melbourne 😆
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It somehow even gets worse, it's only a replacement. Meanwhile on famously reliable Sydney Trains, a bridge was replaced in 6 days at Lidcombe and clearance increased too. youtube.com/watch?v=Qm-tBIEb… And same with 6 days in Melbourne at Syndal. facebook.com/metromelbourne/…

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Sydney Trains new $14Mil superstructure - Olympic Drive Under bridg...

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Cllr Liam Walker
@_LiamWalker_Sep 22
After around 3 years and 5 months, the Botley Road in #Oxford has finally reopened. Just to put those 1,258 closure days into perspective… 🚢 The Titanic was built in around 3 years. 🗼 The Eiffel Tower was built in just 2 years, 2 months and 5 days. 🏙️ The Empire State Building took little more than a year to build. 🇬🇧 During the closure we’ve had 3 different Prime Ministers. 🎓 You could have started and completed a three-year university degree while Botley Road was closed. 📅 That's more than 30,000 hours of closure and disruption for residents, businesses and commuters. Meanwhile, the wider Oxford Station project now stands at £237.4 million up from the original £161m cost. Of course these are very different projects, but the comparisons put into perspective the extraordinary length of this closure. It’s no wonder we have major infrastructure challenges in this country when project budgets are allowed to balloon and we see delay after delay. We need to get much better at delivering major infrastructure on time and with proper control of taxpayers’ money.
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