Author: PTUA

If you’re catching Metro Trains or Yarra Trams today, Saturday timetables (without late-night services) apply. But what about other services, including buses? Metlink says that in Melbourne, 199 bus routes will run to Saturday times, but 21 will run to Sunday times. And one will run to a special timetable. V/Line will run most services…

Big events — with large numbers of people leaving in a short space of time — should be what public transport do best. When crowds are expected to be leaving an MCG footy game en masse, it shouldn’t be too hard to plan to have frequent services to get them home. But as this picture…

Better to have a dirty vehicle than a cancelled service of course, but perhaps they can do better at ensuring graffiti is more efficiently cleaned-off. Help our campaign for better public transport. Join the PTUA now. We rely entirely on member funding and enthusiastic volunteers to operate. More about PT Problem Of The Day, including…

How do you really rub public transport users’ noses in it? Allow parking in the bus stops. This is the outbound stop on Lonsdale Street, near Swanston Street. Outside peak times, not only does the bus lane not operate, but they actually allow cars to park right in front of the bus shelters, discouraging passengers…

It’s not just buses, trams and Metro trains that get packed. This picture was snapped by a PTUA member on the 4:57pm Geelong line train to Marshall. The first stop out of Melbourne to let off passengers was Little River, so passengers would have been standing for at least 43 minutes. Are you unhappy with…

Priority measures such as tram lanes can help prevent delays to trams, which is important, as a single tram may be carrying hundreds of passengers. But those measures only work if they’re used properly. Just like bus lanes, they get blocked by thoughtless motorists driving and stopping where they’re not meant to — and policing…

Footscray is a major interchange location for the western suburbs, with passengers changing between trains, trams and buses. Despite the recent upgrade to the station, with a new multimillion dollar bridge, nothing has been done about bus stop locations, which are spread around numerous locations around the area, with some stops up to 350 metres…

Does anybody actually notice these displays in the Elizabeth Street subway of Flinders Street station, way up above everybody’s heads? The signs (along with all their easier-to-see cousins around the rest of the station) were installed several years ago. They appear to be theoretically capable of showing latest information such as delays and disruptions, but…

This is Footscray’s very impressive-looking new railway station bridge. It opened last year, part of a $61 million investment in urban renewal in the area. Unfortunately shortly after it was completed, the Regional Rail Link project determined that part of the bridge will need to be modified to cater for the extra platforms to be…

Richmond station’s exits provide easy access to the MCG and the Tennis Centre… but only if they’re open. While this is done for big events, often minor events seem to slip under the radar. We’ve had reports of passengers having to inform station staff that an event was on so they would open the exit…

(Click to see bigger) Passengers at Seaholme, Altona and Westona (the Altona Loop) aren’t too happy now that they have to change to and from shuttle trains during off-peak times on weekdays. How would you make them even less happy about it? Give them inadequate and incorrect information! This sign at Southern Cross is full…