Comments on: Zombie advertisements during Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Mon, 24 May 2021 13:12:00 +0000

In reply to John. My last photo was also from February 2020.

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Mon, 24 May 2021 13:10:27 +0000

In reply to Paul Westcott.

McHarry’s is an interesting one – it seems like they have their own dedicated advertising network, ‘Big Bus Media’.

http://bussignage.com.au/about.html

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Mon, 24 May 2021 13:07:24 +0000

In reply to indigohex3. An example. :-P

By: indigohex3

indigohex3 — Thu, 20 May 2021 09:12:33 +0000

In reply to indigohex3. An addition to the post I made on Tuesday. I was doing extra work in the Dandenongs earlier today and despite the bus using the PTV livery, I saw a Ventura bus with an ad plastered on almost the entire side of the bus.

By: John

John — Tue, 18 May 2021 07:32:05 +0000

At Southern Cross main entrance (near the clock tower) they still have up a large drinking water bottle company ad. This was up in February 2020, and still there. Pre-COVID these ads would change every 2-4 weeks.

By: indigohex3

indigohex3 — Tue, 18 May 2021 02:19:56 +0000

In reply to Paul Westcott. I live in Delahey and Transit Systems (formerly Sita Buslines, operator of Route 420 that runs along Kings Road here in Delahey) continues to do it (they kept their old livery) while CDC Melbourne has the PTV livery, but I think I have seen some of their buses (on Route 425) have advertising for most of the driver's side. Kastoria is I think the worst offender here in Melbourne's west with advertising covering (in some cases) entire buses (except for the front) covered in advertising. I think there should be limits on advertising on buses and other modes of transport, especially school buses that carries students.

By: Paul Westcott

Paul Westcott — Tue, 18 May 2021 02:03:17 +0000

On a side note (!), it’s very disappointing to see almost the entire sides of buses plastered with vinyl wrap advertising. That can make it very difficult for passengers to see out of the bus in certain light and weather conditions.

A number of years ago, I was told by a PTV staff member that buses wearing PTV livery had to restrict any vinyl wrap on the sides to the centre third only. That seemed to be the case at that time. Bus companies that kept their own livery (e.g. McHarry’s and Sita) had the more extensive advertising coverage.

Now, it seems that PTV is not enforcing its “rule”, assuming it ever existed.

By: Beren

Beren — Mon, 17 May 2021 22:35:29 +0000

I like that you can still find bill posters for events that never happened, and they were never pulled down due to no future events. It makes the world look like an apocalypse occurred.