More about public transport

By the 1920s, the system had been electrified and expanded. More trains left Flinders Street Station in peak hour than do today, with a service every three minutes on the Sandringham line. Reliability was high and cancellations rare. Europeans envied Melbourne for the excellence of our rail system.

via theage.com.au

I’m cleaning up these links that have accumulated on my desktop over the past couple of years. This one is great - I could have written it myself. Continuing the theme in my previous post, this article underlines the basic problem: no one is responsible. And the one person who *ought* to be responsible is blaming everyone else.

Melbourne’s train and tram systems are up for tender now, but bringing in a new operating company will solve nothing: it’s changing the wallpaper to cover the cracks in the wall. The structure is still failing, and needs to be dramatically re-organised. To do this, we need a strong leader who will take responsibility for the deplorable state of affairs. Kosky ain’t it.