Midmantle

This table is with a few problems fixed. Sydney now includes Newcastle and Wollongong in its population. Melbourne no longer includes regional train/bus/coach patronage. I know that V/line services part of suburban Melbourne, but I don't know if its possible to separate that from regional V/line.

The biggest problem with running the Airport line earlier in the morning is that you have to run the entire rail network earlier as well to get people on those early morning flights. By which point the network is pretty much running 24 hours.

Sorry, but I think this headline overstates things. All the state government has done is not rule this out. There hasn’t been anything suggesting the state government is seriously looking at providing rail services to Albany.

In celebration of Freo making the grand final, train frequencies to Fremantle will be doubled on grand final day, and travel will be free. I don’t recall this level of celebration back in 2018 🤔

WA government wants to buy back state's freight rail network, but price is unclear

More proof that people in Perth hate trees

Perth’s version of this map is just the default network map, with every line at 15 minutes

I have made these diagrams of the Sydney suburban rail network that show each service pattern that runs every 30 minutes as a separate line. There are separate diagrams for weekday off-peak services and weekend services.

Labor has got to be kicking itself for not having already built Karnup station ahead of the Secret Harbour by-election. If they lose by a narrow margin, it’s conceivable that the station was a deciding factor.

Blog update: Public transport patronage trends in Au/NZ cities: chartingtransport.com/trends-in-pu...

The Mandurah and Yanchep lines combined make up over half of Perth's rail patronage, despite having less than a third of the network's stations.

Per capita patronage has still not reached pre-Covid levels, but it's close and could surpass it next year. We are way behind 2011-2013 levels though.

We need to destroy the western suburbs

Now can we have a by-election in South Perth please..

Now can we have a by-election in South Perth please..

Liberals apparently want to build Karnup station if elected in 2029. This might be what it takes to get Labor to built it. archive.md/URa3M

This is one of the things that Peter Martinovich mentions when saying that construction costs in Western Australia are cheaper. Everything (or at least all major things) are planned out before construction begins here.

I also wrote up some code to plot the data for each route, using the location data for each stop. Here the area of each circle is proportional to the number of boardings at the stop. I've annotated the busiest sections of each route.

According to Building Beautifully’s latest video, the cross passages are 240 m apart on the Sydney Metro. We are not consistent on this in Australia.

Rumour has it that the train involved here has been written off

How two Perth artists created a work that stretches 7km through the city

The nine busiest Transperth bus routes as of 2024, in no particular order: 907 (Perth to Armadale) 910 (Perth to Thornlie) 930 (Elizabeth Quay to Fremantle) 950 (Morley to QEII Medical Centre) 990 (Perth to Scarborough) 998 and 999 (Circleroute) Red Cat Blue Cat

Interesting, this made me see how close the Forrestfield-Airport Link's cross passages are. They seem to be about every 400 m, so between the US and European standards. We had some problems with one of the cross passages (sinkhole) which delayed the project, so less is good in that aspect too.