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More importantly, do people think their bike will still be there when they get back?

I would not think it was uncommon to be a 20-50 or even 60 year old commuting to work if they were riding on a road, or park or in the CBD but riding on a rail station platform seams a little odd.

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But I don't know why a 47 year old was riding a push bike.

(found in the locked thread).

Go to any bike path in the AM peak and you'll mainly see 20-50 year olds commuting to work. I don't think ...

I noticed on Lygon St the other day that there's overhead illuminated signs and "merge left" arrows in operation for the part-time tram lane to help keep the lane clear.

Not sure how long it's been ...

Better idea, close the line past Gborough - delays due to single track immediately eliminated.

Or run the service past their as a shuttle - too simple?

There's still a fair amount of patronage t ...

Hence my earlier comments that if you increase rail fares to 'cost recovery', then you also need to do the same for roads, be it through excise increases, registration, whatever. However, govt is loat ...

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The new Metro style tunnel would increase Melbourne train inner network by 40,000 passengers per hour..... have sufficient capacity in the future, which only ...

Induced demand of the former kind you describe is not a problem if realistic fares are set. This ensures that people do not move for cheaper housing and cheap transport fares; they may instead choose ...

They index at CPI, not greater than CPI. I'd argue fares should rise faster than CPI for some time, as they have been held unrealistically low (and, for instance the abolition of Zone3 in metcard mean ...

B. Melbourne "has the highest number of level crossings of any metropolitan rail network in the world".

Which means that VicRoads is probably blocking train frequency increases on some lines, and ...

spouting their user pays world, with no thought of the Community Service Obligations aspect of a fares policy, then expect a consequent drop off in PT patronage, and the ramifications of running frequ ...

Agreed, but with the Vline "farebox" covering less than 20% of the operating cost an additional 3% per year above inflation will not buy much.
However, it is better to increase fares in "real" terms ...

Not sure why the bohemian grove site is linked [url=http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/brumby-and-his-crew-face-testing-times-20081112-5o0e.html?page=-1]instead of the original Age article, but anyway.. ...

2) Agreed on the prior booking online, but carrying around a printed ticket (at A4 size) isn't an ideal solution.

People do this with online airfares all the time. It's not something you'd do for p ...

Nothing we haven't heard before but nice to keep the trains in the news and try and bring some accountability to any or all of the players involved.