Hello from an aeroplane somewhere between Milan and Singapore – I’m posting this from the air, lucky enough to be returning from a European holiday, my first time overseas since 2017. This time we ...

(backdated post) How fast can you get a passport renewal? Pretty fast if you’re prepared to pay. With about a week until the holiday, the travel agent pointed out ...

Have been busy, but here is a follow-up on a post from when I last bought a phone - an iPhone 13 in late 2021, which is now ...

A couple of newish things in the world of public transport info that have flown under the radar. Metro now has realtime info for rail replacement buses. Perhaps it’s a soft launch because I can’t see ...

Scheduled arrival in London: 06:25. Here was the view as we descended through the cloud. Most Australians visiting Britain ...

Friday morning: time to head for Europe! Thankfully not an early morning flight - they are not my favourite. I finished ...

Inspired by Alon Levy’s quick-fire Bluesky threads full of transport ideas, here’s some quick-fire points from me: These are some priorities for fixing on Victoria’s public transport network. I’m ...

There were speed gains in the late-1990s, but just in the last few years, timings have been increased to as long (or longer in some cases) as they were in the 1970s, back when the network was running ...

Somewhere I saw some ridership stats for Amtrak, and I noticed with some interest that they’re not that much higher than V/Line, and lower than NSW Trainlink. So I decided to make a chart. (Source: ...

I’m way behind on posting my regular photos from ten years ago, so here’s July and August 2015. Ten years ago they were actively replacing the old Myki readers at stations… a process that is now ...

The TrackSafe foundation has data on fatalities in Victoria, and breaks it down by separating out suspected suicides. If we exclude those (on the theory that crossing removals have their biggest ...