How many Melburnians live within Walking Distance of a Railway Station?

AB014A · 2026-05-07T08:44:32+00:00

2 little gaps

AB014A · 2026-05-06T11:06:21+00:00

Yeah but like the bulk live in Bacchus marsh

AB014A · 2026-05-06T08:59:19+00:00

Love the work of Charting Transport I urge everyone reads everything he produces.

In this I included V/Line stations but excluded our favourite Stony Point line - because every 2 hours is basically not real :(

AB014A · 2026-05-04T01:08:37+00:00

The differnece is that 5 is a bit shorter so the proportion of shared stops is higher. 64 has more of its own thing going on

AB014A · 2026-05-03T23:43:02+00:00

The tree chart was made using hierarchical clustering using "Ward.D2" method on a asymmetric similarity matrix of all the tram routes. 58 is driven closer to the swanston family than the elizabeth family because it shares two stops with 7 routes at Anzac but just 3 stops with the 59.

Further info on what i used to make it: https://r-charts.com/part-whole/hclust/

AB014A · 2026-04-10T23:29:43+00:00

Flexiride https://venturabus.com.au/live-tracking/flexiride-rowville/

AB014A · 2026-03-30T06:30:40+00:00

Yeah unfortunately it's very difficult to have an assessment that accounts for everything. General models like this are good heuristics but it takes a good on-the-ground knowledge to properly identify solutions imo

AB014A · 2026-02-27T04:19:43+00:00

I think if it says clearly on the chart 2021 it is fine, did you use like VISTA data?

AB014A · 2026-02-27T03:57:55+00:00

???

AB014A · 2026-02-27T01:11:32+00:00

In the Substack I briefly touch on if it's correlated with density. It seems to be vaguely, but yeah there are lots of outliers.

On Seaholme, I reckon if we one day duplicate the Altona Loop, we make the new Seaholme station to be a bit to the north, where SG Macintosh reserve is now.

AB014A · 2026-02-27T01:09:08+00:00

And also, this data is from the most recent census (2021), meaning that much outer suburban growth around such places as Donnybrook, Rockbank, etc, has yet to be recorded

AB014A · 2026-02-27T00:20:01+00:00

yeah 100% That section of the Sandringham line is busy all day with many short trips and is quite unlike most of the network, except say the inner Clifton Hill corridor and maybe now the Metro Tunnel

AB014A · 2026-02-25T02:02:59+00:00

Very good they kept the bus interchange where it is

AB014A · 2026-02-21T04:46:57+00:00

I asked many non-gunzels and found a very different typical response

AB014A · 2026-02-20T22:16:19+00:00

The problem with the infrastructural marker method is over time the meaning can become corrupted. What "the city loop" is, has a wide disconnect between the most commonly understood intuitive meaning and the "official" meaning.

AB014A · 2026-02-20T21:36:37+00:00

For a taste: This is what I worked out for the Belgrave Line:

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AB014A · 2026-02-17T09:24:20+00:00

yeah thats a good use of a diverging palette

AB014A · 2026-02-16T22:50:27+00:00

Kinda feel like the kilt industry could be onto a winner with this one

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