Not near the #vicfires at all but the smoke haze has reached Melbourne #melbourneweather #australia #melbourne

PSA: most V/Line rail and coach services for tomorrow 9 January 2026 have been cancelled. Trains will not be replaced by coaches. This affects services in the Central, Northern Country, South West and Wimmera Fire Districts All train services scheduled for the Albury, Ararat, Bendigo, Echuca […]

Well there goes Melbourne's rail network... And it only took one hot day to get here. #MetroTrains #melbourne #melbourneweather #MelbourneTrains #publictransport

Sinkhole in Heidelberg https://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/warning/38943/moreinfo #melbourne #australia

First post of 2026 on poor transport disruption information for upcoming closures of the Eastern Freeway: https://philipmallis.com/2026/01/05/hunting-for-north-east-link-disruption-information/ #melbourne #transit #publictransport #northeastlink

A Wikipedia page about why you shouldn’t use LLMs to write Wikipedia pages. Pretty funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Case_against_LLM-generated_articles #wikipedia #LLMs #citations

New blog post: 2025 in photos https://philipmallis.com/2025/12/31/2025-in-photos/ #nye #2025inreview #2025inreview

Glen Iris, railway station in Glen Iris, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Iris_railway_station #trains #trainstations #map

Melbourne's first level platform tram 'superstop' was built on Collins Street at Swanston Street in 2001. Unfortunately it the south-west and north-west ends of the stop were not built with pedestrian crossings. 24 years later this has finally been fixed with […] [Original post on aus.social]

Obligatory photos of hot cross buns already at Aldi, Coles and Woolworths on Boxing Day #christmas2025 #christmas #easter #easter2026 #australia

There seems to be a law of the universe for YouTube channels which creates an inverse relationship of expected vs. actual popularity of videos. In other words videos that you expect to do well won't be popular, and those that you don't will. #youtube #videos

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 40 years ago today, W7 class #tram no 1021 running a route 67 trip from Carnegie, heads west in Glenhuntly Road at South Caulfield Junction, Caulfield South, Vic, December 22 1985. Forty W7 class trams, built in […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Last video of the year is out! This one is topical so I had a hard deadline to get it published. Thank you so much to everyone for your support over the past 12 months. Having an audience of interested people gives me the ongoing motivation to keep making videos. I have some new plans for next […]

'The acting State Library Victoria management are rushing dozens of changes to library operations that will degrade and diminish core library services. These will gut the reference library staff (from 21 down to 10) and replace them with “self service” options; and pour taxpayer money into […]

I'll be on SYN 90.7FM radio tomorrow morning to talk about the Metro Tunnel and what it means for Melbourne's transport. Tune in tomorrow (5 December) at about 8:50am to 90.7 FM to hear! http://www.syn.org.au/getcereal #melbourne #MelbourneTrains #australiatrains

New video out today, and no it's not about the Metro Tunnel! Discover the history of the planned but never-built railway between Dandenong and Frankston https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RiarUeDKmvk #melbourne #MelbourneTrains #melbournehistory #australiantrains #LocalHistory

Well this is interesting on Day 2 of the #MetroTunnel and first weekday of operations. The interchange between Flinders Street and Town Hall Stations is closed when trains have stopped running for the day. The station itself is open to enter from Collins Street […] [Original post on aus.social]

New post and photos this morning with my initial thoughts and photos from yesterday's opening of the #metrotunnel #melbourne #MelbourneTrains #publictransport #transit #trainstrainstrains #trains #australia https://philipmallis.com/2025/12/01/metro-tunnel-opening-day/

What an amazing Day 1 for the #MetroTunnel ! Thousands of people showed up to see the new stations, ride the trains and have a look around. Everyone I've spoken to had lots of good things to say, with hopes for the improved public transport services that this […] [Original post on aus.social]

Announcement at Footscray that the first #metrotunnel train "has left Sunbury on time and is already full" #MelbourneTrains

Metro Tunnel stations are now showing up in the PTV app and website in advance of the first public trains next week #MelbourneTrains #publictransport #transit #melbourne

New post out today! Using the latest release of 2024-25 data from the Department of Transport & Planning, I look at which are the most and least used railway stations in Melbourne and Victoria […]

Help me turn the State Library Victoria's digitised maps into data! As part of my residency at the SLV LAB, I've been experimenting with using Allmaps and @IIIF to georeference the Library's maps. Georeferencing relates a digitised map to real world […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

The Transport Victoria website has been updated and now includes an "AI Chatbot" of questionable utility. Can't answer very basic questions and doesn't seem to add much value to the website. I would rather they focus their effort on fixing the many errors and […] [Original post on aus.social]

Seeing Linux adoption and people actively opting out of big-tech enshittification are things that give me hope. This here sort of article helps 🥰 […]

TIL about Fitzroy Gardens Hospital Sunday, thanks to this handy plaque near the Fairy Garden. These beautiful gardens have been popular with Melburnians and visitors alike for a long time. Certainly a big improvement on when it was used as a dumping ground and […] [Original post on aus.social]

Out of all the tens of different PIDs and screen layouts across Victoria this new one at Richmond Station on Platforms 5 & 6 is my favourite. It includes all the necessary information and is a good layout for an interchange station like Richmond with the extra […] [Original post on aus.social]

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tram works on Victoria Street and Elizabeth Street are almost done. The new tram stop on Victoria Street looks far too narrow and small to accommodate the high number of people likely to use it. It's also far from Peel Street which drastically increases the […] [Original post on aus.social]

New video out today from me on the latest for Melbourne's Metro Tunnel! Includes a bonus tour of State Library Station. Check it out below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLP4DJpspYI #MelbourneTrains #melbourne #transit #publictransport #australia #trains

First run of processing the SLV's 20,000+ digitised photos from the Committee for Urban Action to link them to geolocated road segments. A few oddities to investigate, but pretty good. Fitzroy and South Melbourne have been digitised, and a number of the goldfields towns, more will be added soon.

Melbourne #metrotunnel is special to me. And with yesterday’s announcement, I want to now tell you why, in a thread. I love rail maps. Inspired by Beck’s London Underground diagram since a youngster, I've long thought every big city needs a map and an UndergrounD just like London (1/12)

First bus that I've seen fitted with the new myki readers. Kinetic bus 388009. They do take up a bit more space than the older ones and are liable to be bumped into on account of the card reader jutting out - especially as they are near the doors - but they do […] [Original post on aus.social]

Obligatory photo at the myki gates in the brand new State Library Station just before heading down to the platforms #MelbourneTrains #melbourne #publictransport #transit

Here's a link to an svg version of my updated Melbourne train and tram map following December's soft opening of the Metro Tunnel. https://railmaps.com.au/melbourne_draft.htm

Lots of new Metro Tunnel announcements from the Premier and Minister for Public Transport at today's media launch! Partial launch in early December (pending rail safety regulator signoff) with full service starting 10 February 2026. This includes changes to train […] [Original post on aus.social]

Help make 2025 the Year of the Tawny Frogmouth! We were robbed last year in second place... Vote here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now #birds #aussiebirdoftheyear #australia #teamtawny

Hoddle Street is one of the major inner arterial roads in inner Melbourne. It is 10 lanes at its widest point but narrows at its southern and northern ends. This is because it wasn't always like this. Hoddle Street used to be a fairly standard shopping street […] [Original post on aus.social]

Transport Camp 2025 kicking off in Melbourne #transport #melbourne

"Minor" disruption at the moment across the entire Melbourne metropolitan rail network. All passenger information displays, apps and website are not showing train departures. #MelbourneTrains #melbourne #publictransport #transit #showmeasign

MNNININD THE GAPP #MelbourneTrains #transit #publictransport #trains

Unfortunately it looks like we're set for a repeat of the 2024-2025 saga when the down escalator at the Box Hill Bus Station was broken for over four months. It has now been broken again for at least five days straight. No signage or assistance for people to […] [Original post on aus.social]

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 39 years ago today, T358 and another T haul a broad gauge goods #train across the gated level crossing at Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Vic, September 25 1986. Ballarat is a provincial city in Victoria 120km west of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The down escalator at Box Hill is broken yet again! Only 194 days since it was fixed. Hopefully it doesn't take over four months to repair again... https://philam.github.io/days-since-box-hill-escalator/ #melbournebuses #publictransport #melbourne #transit

The upgrades to City Loop stations are all well and good, but what's the point of live departure screens if you can't see them? Blocked from view at most points on the platform by the new signs placed directly in front of them #MelbourneTrains #Melbourne […] [Original post on aus.social]

New video out today about the two times that Victoria nearly got a nuclear power station! This has been one of my personal favourites to make. It involved a lot of original research and I learned a lot. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQqP7pxZqQk #melbourne #nuclear #nuclearpower #australia […]

This particularly annoys me – when the ad wrap covers the tram windows with a block colour, meaning it could've just been left uncovered. Ad wrap should be banned over tram windows.

Happy Melbourne Day! 30 August 2025 marks 190 years since the ship 'Enterprize' landed on the banks of the Yarra River. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Day #melbourne #melbourneday #history

80s nostalgia AI slop: A niche like any other, reverse engineered by 20-something digital nomads in Bali to boomerfy the masses as they astral project to a fake past in service of making fractions of a cent per view on Zuckerberg's cultish algorithmic slop machine […]

Microsoft betrays the naive developers who trusted its word: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/githubs-fall-microsofts-ai-takeover-developer-betrayal-dion-wiggins-oyetc