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2011: Posts Of The Year

I certainly hope my readers have had a safe and happy holiday period. Today, I have decided to take a quick look at back at my popular posts from 2011, with the most read articles for each month, and a little discussion of each. If 2012 throws up some similar results, it will be another [...]

V/Line – Could It Really Be True?

Regular followers of my tweets and blog posts will know that a subject I am, shall we say, “passionate” about is the performance – (or lack thereof) – of the customer service efforts of Victoria’s regional rail provider, V/Line. Any regular commuter with an ounce of common sense understands that things go wrong from time [...]

Our Customers Are Idiots: V/Line

Long suffering Geelong V/Line customers copped another penalty for trying to do the right thing and support public transport yesterday morning when the 4:43am service from Marshall to Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station ran out of fuel at Footscray, halting all trains behind it. This included metropolitan services on the Werribee and Williamstown lines, and caused [...]

V/Line: The Cleanup Progresses!

If you stopped by my site yesterday, you would have caught a set of images I took onboard my regular 16:37 V/Line service to North Geelong. It was pretty gross. Well, 24 hours on – guess what happened? Same carriage…1207 from V/Locity set VL07…and they’ve attempted to clean it up. I guess they tried at [...]

Your Train Is Ready For Boarding!

Boarding my regular 16:37 Southern Cross to North Geelong service this evening, I discovered this in the front most carriage. Nice, isn’t it? Want a closer look? The worst part was that a conductor walked through the carriage, saw the mess, and did nothing about it. This train was NOT ready for boarding. Lift your [...]

New Timetable Improves Little

The much-hyped new train timetables running in Victoria were heralded by the government, V/Line, and Metro Trains Melbourne as a breakthrough for passengers getting around more efficiently. We were promised by V/Line that “these changes follow several months of work with Metro and feedback from our customers“. Oh really? Customers asked for slower trains? Obviously, [...]

Channel Seven – Please Get It Right!

Over the weekend, Channel Seven Melbourne was heavily promoting a “special report” to be screened on this evening’s nightly news bulletin, extolling the virtues of living in Geelong instead of Melbourne, and commuting into Melbourne for work. About how “easy” and “relaxed” this commute is. I regularly do this commute, and I can warn the [...]

V/Line Is A Pain In The Arse!

Now, before I get into this article, I’ll make one thing perfectly clear – this is NOT your typical V/Line rant that I might usually come up with, so if that’s what you’re looking for, you’ll be disappointed. Stick around though, because you will get a laugh at my expense. Over the last three weeks [...]