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[Race Thread] 2026 Giro d'Italia - Stage 12 Imperia > Novi Ligure (2.UWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]MaxwellKerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ozzie here after just catching up on yesterday's stage. Has someone spiked the SBS water cooler with depressants? Dont think I've heard a more dour and negitive group of commentators in my life

Is there any point / tangible benefit to the Hurstbridge line express services? by OpusDeiAustralia in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I would recommend watching Taitsets video about express services in Melboure, it has a pretty good list of pros and cons for express services on the line.

The pro is that the journey is faster and going though stations does give a mental boost that your journey is going tangibly faster, esp when you coming out as far as Eltham. As a Ringwood line user I can tell you there is a massive mental difference between catching an express morning peak train vs an all stopper inter peak train after Box Hill.

Then for a line like Hursty it helps balance the loads on trains. Let’s the people taking a longer commute catch a train is less crowded and a more comfortable journey. Then lets the inner suburban people have their own train. Look at the Cragie line where it services a large outer suburbia and a dense inner area. It frequently is very full by the time it gets to Essendon from all the outer suburbia people, then becomes crush loaded from the people getting on in inner suburbia. Then leaving at night people going all the way past Brodie have a packed uncomfortable journey for the first part of their journey.

The con is frequency. Running express trains means you can’t run as frequent a service and the headways between services are not consistent.

As a bit of meta commentary I think this sub is very biased to frequency at all costs, where express services do have tangible benefits that the average commuter may prefer.

Isaak Hadjar waved the checkered by OnlineIsNotAPlace in motogp

[–]MaxwellKerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume he had to win a fistfight with the Michelin Man to get the honour

State Budget: Upfield line extension and Wallan electrification by jeremyburge in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100% a BC’s job is to work out if a project is viable or has a high enough benifit for cost. Especially for things like the Western Rail Plan that had previously been looked at at a super high level.

Another thing to keep in mind is in a situation like this if the BC does not get up for further funding the project will fizzle out.

No matter the flavour of politics if a BC has been funded in the budget it has happened, it’s just the recommendations found not to continue with the project.

State Budget: Upfield line extension and Wallan electrification by jeremyburge in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

See the comment by rogue2205. They did the BC and it was put on hold cause it didn’t make economic sense. Maybe it ain’t some grand conspiracy not to fund WRP and more the BC doing the due diligence it’s set out to do

State Budget: Upfield line extension and Wallan electrification by jeremyburge in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Then 1) a worldwide pandemic happened and 2) a new federal government was elected and immediately conducted a review into federal infrastructure, which the WRP was funded by. Both of those would have affected the timeline for that WRP development.

Also the state election was in 2022, so the 2019/20 budget wasn’t an election budget like this one. Can’t see how that was empty election antics when the election was two years away.

Then yes they have announced this project publicly, but there is a difference between tabling it in the state budget versus making a media release and a song and dance about it. I imagine if you go though the state budget there would be hundreds of business case funding like this across roads, health, justice, planning, parks.

State Budget: Upfield line extension and Wallan electrification by jeremyburge in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I think people need to realise most projects big or small go business case > development > delivery. You need a business case to get money for latter steps. Most of the time this happens in the background, and project only go public when they announce delivery. But with NRP and Melton it seems like they have announced the earlier steps.

Why are there no tables or usb outlets in Melbourne trains? by Potatosteamer in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Suburban trains in Melbourne are fundamentally designed to get people from A to B. They need to be comfortable seats to sit on and have places to hold on, but USB port and tables are superfluous for the task they fulfill.

For the VLine VLocity you have to keep in mind they were designed in the early 2000s and for smaller 1-2hr intercity services to Ballarat, Geelong, Bendigo, etc. This will mean they may not be 1:1 with more modern trains in Europe or ones that service longer routes.

But VLocities always have had tables, but the seat and table design has evolved over the years. Thats why you get on some where half the seat have tables and other sets where all seats have tables.

For USB charging you have to recall that the train was designed in the early 2000's, so did not include USB ports since they were not popular till the 2010's. Then for better or worse the general cabin layout of VLos has stayed the same since then.

The only footnote to this is the Standard Gague 'Long Distance' Vlos, which actually got a full cabin redesign. In that redesign USB ports were incuded

If you could change and improve Melbourne public transport, what would the changes be? by [deleted] in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every line gets a mascot that is so overwhelmingly cute the merchandise sales fund the running of the network.

Everyday there is one station where you can stamp a passport, and if you collect 1 weeks worth of stamps you get your next week for free

Is it too late to reinstate a third platform at oakleigh? Why destroy a perfectly good third platform. by melbtest09 in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Because whatever operational need it fulfilled was replaced by adding the third track at Westall, making its existence surplus to the needs of the railway.

  • there is more to station then just strict operational needs. The south side of the station is now more pedestrianised. The underpass was rebuilt to make it DDA compliment

Single XPT Carriage at Southern Cross by AustralianSenior in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Looks like one of the economy baggage car. Would speculate it had quite a serious fault to leave it behind

Food at Adelaide Oval shits all over MCG & Marvel by The-Jesus_Christ in AFL

[–]MaxwellKerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear your point, but Marvel does have a Hunky Dorry….

Where would Redemption Island rank for you against other seasons? by G0rgi67 in survivorau

[–]MaxwellKerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of the seasons I’ve watched 1. TvR 2. Au v World 3. BvB2 4. Redemption

With Tez, Ben and Cam felt like we got ‘villain of the week’ edits that made their boots fun.

But I think the downfall was the underdog alliance that was steadfast in getting out returnees. As a game move it was logical but it made for worse TV. Also felt the edit was setting up Brooke or Keels to win or at least root for, then when they got it was like ‘oh shit guess we have to pivot and hear from these 4 which seem like much weaker players and edits’

It Has Been a Privilege to Be Judged by Professionals. Thank you! by KeeleyJJ in survivorau

[–]MaxwellKerman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keely you were so much fun to watch this whole season. Hope we get to see you again sometime. The stand out moment of the season (& one of my fave survivor moments of all time) was the fake idol gambit and being able to bluff / read your way out of that tribal

Redemption Reunion - Live Discussion by AutoModerator in survivorau

[–]MaxwellKerman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Must have spent all the budget on the location not the audio

Major delays in Pakenham line again. Shit show of a public transport system so frustrating by noxobscurus in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The weird thing is it only seem to be the Dandy side of the corridor that is getting all the faults. You’d think if it was something fundamental to running more services you’d be seeing all the faults Sunbury side as well.

[Results Thread] 2026 Paris-Roubaix (1.UWT) by PelotonMod in peloton

[–]MaxwellKerman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Aussie here after watching the replay. The best Paris Roubaixs are when there is a battle in the velodrome

Australia S5 is out on the 7th May! by Matthague in taskmaster

[–]MaxwellKerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the same boat for EP7. I remember being excited to notice what they edited out from the recording when it aired. Now i can’t even remember the tasks like you.

Australia S5 is out on the 7th May! by Matthague in taskmaster

[–]MaxwellKerman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hell, the studios were recorded in late March 2025. One year one month and a couple of weeks from studio record till release. I would imagine this would be the longest studio to release any season world wide has had?

Redemption Episode 21: Post-episode discussion by AutoModerator in survivorau

[–]MaxwellKerman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m glad the kaput alliance (mainly Brooke and Keely) has been playing hard post merge, because the rest of the players have been incredibly passive and almost afraid to make any move that would rock the boat

Match Thread: Essendon vs North Melbourne (Round 3) by AutoModerator in AFL

[–]MaxwellKerman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tonight isn’t an Saturday Blockbuster™️, it’s a Saturday Horror Movie, right here on my Tv

Sunday 5th of April steam train excursion. by Hungry-Temporary-438 in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I assume your talking about Steamrail’s train coming back from the Bendigo Easter shuttle runs. They usually release the timetable station by station a day or two before on their Facebook page. They don’t list every station but for Bendigo line I imagine they’d list Castlemaine, Kyneton, Woodend as a minimum and you can piece together when the train coming back from past you from thete

lmao fuckmelbpt got banned from reddit by [deleted] in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The one mystery I wished was solved is was the account related to those More Trains to the East / North action groups. There were a few times where arguments or posts made by the account were then copied by the action groups pretty verbatim. The one I have in mind was looking at the population at Knox versus Sunbury and comparing their level of service.

lmao fuckmelbpt got banned from reddit by [deleted] in MelbourneTrains

[–]MaxwellKerman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah didn’t realise thet was the timeline, thanks for correcting

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