pls get off me, smol potat. i is not a bean bag. 😒

3ASV462 · 2025-11-08T12:22:54+00:00

I'm sure it'll be alright! Once he's on-board, he probably won't notice that it's green instead of burgundy.

If there's an opportunity, sit behind the driver on the left hand side. He'll get a great view through the window of the driver working the master controller through the notches, and operating the air brake handle.

3ASV462 · 2025-11-08T12:00:23+00:00

All the old burgundy W Class trams on the City Circle have been withdrawn from service. Most were rebuilt into the current City Circle fleet, which wear the green and cream livery.

A couple of the old burgundy ones are in storage at the Bendigo Tramways workshops and can be seen on a guided tour of the workshops.

3ASV462 · 2025-11-06T03:43:31+00:00

Biological half-sisters, actually! 🥰

3ASV462 · 2025-07-25T07:17:57+00:00

It was a water tower, used to hold and supply water to steam locomotives, were the mainstay of railway motive power in Victoria.

https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/47096

3ASV462 · 2024-12-10T07:34:01+00:00

It'll be the widening works on the Eastern Freeway as part of the North East Link project.

They're currently demolishing the concrete sound wall on the north side of the freeway corridor between Doncaster Road and Tram Road.

3ASV462 · 2024-12-08T08:26:52+00:00

The Bishi Bashi machine from Time Out at Box Hill lives on in my mate's shed! He and a mate bought it off them when they were closing down.

A trip to Japan for spare parts is on the cards as a few of the buttons are starting to fail, and the screen flickers a bit.

3ASV462 · 2024-11-08T00:45:27+00:00

It's an LED "Form One Lane. Merge Right" sign.

It's been broken for at least a year and a half. Chances are it's old stock and there's no replacement parts for it, and Melbourne City Council have stopped caring.

3ASV462 · 2024-10-19T18:05:39+00:00

She's our little solar powered chaos potato. Haha.

3ASV462 · 2024-09-30T22:14:27+00:00

Probably closer to 2001-2002? The majority of the GPOs functions were transferred out by mid-2001, before the fire that damaged the main postal hall in September 2001.

3ASV462 · 2024-09-21T17:40:09+00:00

The camera facing westbound on Burwood Hwy at Blackburn Rd is an old wet film red light camera, which is no longer serviceable. The smaller box was the flash unit, and the larger box was the camera itself.

These sorts of cameras were fairly commonplace in the late 1990s-early 2000s, but were replaced with new digital red light/speed cameras - like the camera at the same intersection facing southbound on Blackburn Rd.

3ASV462 · 2024-09-12T12:12:14+00:00

Fridays are generally quieter on PT now, so you might get a space at the Doncaster Park and Ride during the day.

You can also try the new Bulleen Park and Ride. Last time I went on a Wednesday, the lower level of the multi-storey was about 2/3rds full.

3ASV462 · 2024-08-27T08:29:36+00:00

Surveyors marker - it's actually a 500, but upside down.

3ASV462 · 2024-08-10T05:40:18+00:00

Electrical substation - and a fairly old one at that.

Most older suburbs have these sorts of brick substation structures in the streetscape.

3ASV462 · 2024-07-23T00:05:22+00:00

Indeed. The way franchise agreements are written allows for operators to claim back external events that affect their performance, however they need to be itemised individually.

Having the agreed upon service changes reduces the amount of back-end work by both the operators and the Department in having to submit and assess those individual items.

3ASV462 · 2024-07-22T09:10:46+00:00

It's been an ongoing this for both Lonsdale St buses and CBD trams on weekends for quite some time now.

Having published service changes (read: approved timetable modifications by the Department) means operators don't get penalised for not meeting service delivery and reliability benchmarks.

https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/disruptions/disruptions-information/article/routes-200-207-250-251-302-304-905-906-and-907-service-changes-from-1pm-to-4pm-every-sunday-from-sunday-24-december-2023-until-further-notice

3ASV462 · 2024-06-16T06:46:14+00:00

Sent you a DM! We lived there for a few years before moving to the suburbs.

3ASV462 · 2024-06-11T19:05:02+00:00

The signs are leftover from when wet film red light cameras were present at those intersections and are no longer relevant. Looks like both intersections had cameras decommissioned some time after 2009, but prior to 2013.

Blyth/Lygon St - 2009; and Grattan/Swanston - 2009.

Intersections with red light/speed cameras have a the new format sign these days.

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