It’s a hot summer day and you just want to get home, so you walk into Southern Cross Station to catch a train – only to be greeted by a failing wall of next train displays. Yep, it’s cooked Three out of the seven displays are barely visible – leaving the next seven V/Line departures […]
How long does it take VicRoads to fix a failing retaining wall? Well, in the case of the Taylors Road underpass at St Albans, it only took them a decade. The story begins Once upon a time Taylors Road was a road in the middle of nowhere, beyond the edge of suburban Melbourne. Melway Edition […]
Most of the time electric trains are pretty mechanically simple – a pantograph on the roof is used to collect electricity from the overhead wires, which is then used to power the train. But what happens if something goes wrong with the overhead, destroying the pantograph? A few weeks ago Metro Trains Melbourne had this […]
Back in 2020 then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison somehow believed that a ‘gas-led recovery’ would be Australia’s solution to our economic doldrums. That didn’t work, but the management of Southern Cross Station is trying something equality as stupid – a vending machine-led recovery. Reheated media release, or reheated pizza? It started a month ago, when Melbourne’s […]
How long does it take to fix a failed escalator? For the management of Southern Cross Station this has become a chance to set a new world record, after the escalator linking the Bourke Street Bridge to Spencer Street broke down back in early November. November 5. November 10. November 24. December 29. January 9. […]
