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    • don_dunstan posted
    Posted in Melbourne suburban » Spencer street St action is back

    They waste such huge amounts of money on seemingly inconsequential things why should changing the main terminus name back to the original be a problem.

    How many millions wasted on re-branding the trains and trams, over and over and over.  How much money did they spend just a few years ago throwing away all the Connex uniforms, ripping old Connex stickers off everything, just for the sake of giving the contract to the Hong Kong government?  Wasting money on change-of-name is what our state government does best - both sides do it really well and do it frequently.  I say let them do what they do best and waste a few million more on yet another name change so we can erase that awful half-baked marketing idea from Peter Bachelor forever.

    Anyway, the original Southern Cross was actually hoisted at Ballarat East during the Eureka rebellion, not in Melbourne.  The name has got sweet FA to do with the actual location... a more appropriate name would have been Melbourne Central but a shopping centre already stole that one.

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    Edited 01 Jun 2013 23:04, 8 years ago, edited by don_dunstan

    They waste such huge amounts of money on seemingly inconsequential things why should changing the main terminus name back to the original be a problem.

    How many millions wasted on re-branding the trains and trams, over and over and over.  How much money did they spend just a few years ago throwing away all the Connex uniforms, ripping old Connex stickers off everything, just for the sake of giving the contract to the Hong Kong government?  Wasting money on change-of-name is what our state government does best - both sides do it really well and do it frequently.  I say let them do what they do best and waste a few million more on yet another name change so we can erase that awful half-baked marketing idea from Peter Bachelor forever.

    Anyway, the Southern Cross was actually hoisted at Ballarat East, not in Melbourne.  The name has got sweet FA to do with the actual location... a more appropriate name would have been Melbourne Central but a shopping centre already stole that one.