It’s easy to complain about what’s wrong with Melbourne public transport, so how would you improve the current system?
Perhaps you’ve got ideas for new lines, staffing, operating hours, changes to ticketing – maybe you’ve got some good reasons why the entire system should be free!
Here’s your chance to let State Government know how you’d do a better job.
Just re-brand the trains, it’s the ugly paintwork that’s slowing the system down.
1) sack the minister. 2) make a single authority responsible for coordinating everything. See http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/transports-big-problem-no-ones-in-charge-20090906-fcq1.html
Running transport 24 hours would bring us into line with the rest of the world and move us at least into the 80s!
We have the worlds best casino (debatable) but the worlds best sports and entertainment areas. To think that everyone goes home like the people of the 60′s is wrong. Taxis are not to standard, horribly unreliable; Trains and trams go to where most of us live. Run them 24/7 and violence in town will dramatically stop. It is the least expensive fix to hammering publicans whose fault it is that people get drunk and paying for coppers to work extra each and every week to stop the violence.
Trams and trains in the 70s and 80s. We never fell off, they ran rain hail or shine and we all paid fares. WHAT HAPPENED?
Toykyo style. Push em inside and get em moving.
>Here’s your chance to let State Government know how you’d do a better job.
Really? The State Government will read these comments?
In that case – agree with previous comments on putting on extra train services after midnight, 7 days a week! We have the infrastructure, so what’s wrong?
Another suggestion is to create a ‘ring’ train line similar to other countries, which connect radiating train lines, laterally! Eg., so to go from Footscray to Brunswick for example, wouldn’t require one to go all the way into the city to change trains!!
They’ll read it in a roundabout way – a mate of mine works for the Dept of Transport ;)