Posts Tagged ‘accessible transport’
Photos from ten years ago: December 2014
December 31st, 2024
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The saga of lifts at Watergardens station
December 3rd, 2024
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For something that was built from scratch 20 years ago, the accessibility issues at Watergardens railway station on the Sunbury line stand out – this is the story of the lifts that didn’t work, and the effort that went into fixing them. In the beginning For years Sydenham station was a wayside stop on the […]
Photos from ten years ago: September 2013
September 26th, 2023
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Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is September 2013. Regional Rail Link We start the month like many others, with progress on the Regional Rail Link project through Melbourne’s west. The old West Footscray station was still in place beneath ‘Mount Mistake‘. But the new station to […]
Photos from ten years ago: February 2013
February 28th, 2023
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Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is February 2013. Ding ding Metcard had been switched off. The ‘safety’ zone tram stop on Epsom Road in Ascot Vale was copping a beating. Route 19, 57 and 19 passengers didn’t have any platform stops along Elizabeth Street. And the […]
Melbourne’s missed opportunities for low-floor trams
June 22nd, 2021
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With hundreds of high floor trams still in service in Melbourne, and the oldest low-floor trams having entered service in 2002, the State Government is at risk of failing to meet the 2032 deadline for meeting the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport. However it didn’t have to be this way – there were many […]
