Comments on: MIA – rubbish bins at Melbourne’s stations https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:33:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Photos from ten years ago: November 2014 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-962184 Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:33:03 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-962184 […] the removal of rubbish bins from Melbourne stations due to the “increased terror alert level”, they all got dumped in a pile at Flinders Street […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: October 2014 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-957750 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 22:44:21 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-957750 […] bins eventually returned but now see through, with the exception of Southern Cross Station, which still lacks […]

]]> By: Photos from ten years ago: September 2014 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-951691 Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:32:26 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-951691 […] September 2014 Public Transport Victoria yanked the rubbish bins from Melbourne railway stations as a response to the “increased terror alert […]

]]> By: Southern Cross Station's vending machine-led recovery? - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-887274 Mon, 04 Sep 2023 21:32:11 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-887274 […] At least the seats that served the now-closed fast food outlets still exist – but with seagulls picking through abandoned fast food wrappers, after the rubbish bins were removed a decade ago. […]

]]> By: Then and now at Flinders Street Station - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-741293 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:32:18 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-741293 […] But the milk and parcels are gone – replaced by a pile of rubbish bins removed to fight terrorism. […]

]]> By: Confused sports fans shut down a rail network - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-361871 Mon, 04 May 2015 21:34:18 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-361871 […] back in September 2014 how rubbish bins were removed from Melbourne’s railway stations due to security […]

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-338961 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:12:22 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-338961 In reply to mich.

The winner in the end is presumably the company with the cleaning contract – they have a habit of paying their subcontracted staff below minimum wage.

http://www.theage.com.au/business/dirty-work-in-the-cleaning-industry-20130828-2sqtm.html

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-338958 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:55:45 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-338958 In reply to Graham.

It’s the same kind of rebellion behind “my train is late so I why should I buy a ticket” but on a smaller scale.

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-338956 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 04:54:35 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-338956 In reply to jon.

Presumably management only needs to look like they are doing something about ‘terrorism’ – so they don’t have to worry about the consequences.

]]> By: mich https://wongm.com/2014/12/melbourne-railway-station-rubbish-bins-removed/#comment-338569 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 03:00:17 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=5281#comment-338569 If they want “Security theatre”, then let them have it. My occasional act leaving non-portable rubbish where bins have been idiotically removed, is a deliberative artistic and cultural statement.

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