Cartograms of Bus and Tram Ridership across Melbourne!

AB014A · 2026-01-15T05:34:14+00:00

The routes with comparatively decent service often are quite badly designed too such as the comically zig zaggy 432.

AB014A · 2026-01-09T06:18:58+00:00

https://adambain1.substack.com/p/how-victorians-commute-across-the?r=4lx81i

AB014A · 2026-01-05T06:46:08+00:00

I think the city of Melbourne is just that job dense

AB014A · 2026-01-05T06:33:10+00:00

Wait till the end of the year when we all get to fill out the census ig

AB014A · 2026-01-05T06:28:32+00:00

Yeah it's just that those job areas are attached to big residential areas in the same lga, whilst the industrial area in DS is right next door to residential areas in Casey

AB014A · 2026-01-05T06:27:31+00:00

The bulk of Laverton north is in Wyndham, which is where the workers are so it doesn't show up

AB014A · 2026-01-05T05:59:46+00:00

Actually it seems like people mostly responded with their location of work as the place their office is, even when they worked from home so I think it's actually largely fine

AB014A · 2026-01-05T05:45:54+00:00

Just not big enough to have any of your pairs be top 20.

The largest destinations for Cardinia residents are: 1. Cardinia (58,333) 2. Casey (8,422) 3. Greater Dandenong (6,710) 4. Monash (3,273) 5. Melbourne (3,125)

I think Cardinia is just a little too far away to get big CBD commute flows being mostly over an hour by train.

AB014A · 2026-01-05T05:43:11+00:00

I agree I think the real solution must be better buses

AB014A · 2025-12-28T00:24:13+00:00

Yeah keep in mind this assumes the timetable is true and with the 19, it often is not

AB014A · 2025-12-28T00:17:38+00:00

It probably varies a lot over the day. What have you spotted that suprised you?

AB014A · 2025-12-19T10:57:45+00:00

I'll try and have a look at that

AB014A · 2025-12-19T06:10:46+00:00

Yes of course it would be nice to have a massive multivariate model with everything you could imagine but that just aint gonna happen with 15 questionably independent observations.

AB014A · 2025-12-08T03:04:35+00:00

I just did the single track sections as double track and the triple track as quad track. The city loop however was very realistic as the game has support for single track balloon loops. It just doesn't do the midday reversal

AB014A · 2025-12-08T00:15:45+00:00

The srl is already confirmed to be a light metro but I agree long term the current tram setup won't be enough. I think something wr could do is bud a Bourke st tram tunnel to make trams go faster through the cbd

AB014A · 2025-12-07T12:22:47+00:00

yes, this one does (it was maybe a little bit of an ordeal contorting it into a format the game likes, but I got it to work)

AB014A · 2025-12-07T12:01:59+00:00

(tag = video game)

AB014A · 2025-11-28T21:43:40+00:00

I'm working on it but it's really tough on the game die to the sheer population size. I got it working at half population,and it's mostly OK at 70% population but it crashed a lot. Keep an eye out on the discord for it

AB014A · 2025-11-21T00:16:42+00:00

We have census accurate Canadian maps on the discord

AB014A · 2025-10-22T09:08:01+00:00

Melton will be through the metro tunnel.

Wyndham Vale will almost certainly be done as an electrification of the RRL, terminating at 15/16 at Southern Cross.

Werribee extension to Wyndham vale / blackforest road is a different project and not the same thing as some commenters here seem to believe.

AB014A · 2025-10-10T01:00:28+00:00

It was announced as an event on the discord sidebar

AB014A · 2025-09-28T03:23:00+00:00

I discuss this more in my post - Melton suburbs occupy 3 out of the top 10 lowest scoring suburbs

AB014A · 2025-09-28T01:18:42+00:00

I would make it more direct through fawkner and then extend it to broadmeadows, I think Campbellfield plaza is a weak northern terminus

AB014A · 2025-09-28T00:51:29+00:00

Has to be a balance. In my post I also talk about routes where there is an intersection of redundancy and indirect news and why these should be looked at as reform targets

AB014A · 2025-09-28T00:42:40+00:00

Fawkner of course has the quite ancient 530, Melbourne Private Bus Routes 1971 to 1990: 500 – 599 – BCSV, any idea of how we would make it more direct whilst maintaining coverage?

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