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I think you mentioned the linking of the tram routes near the Vic market ,,, they apparently only 50 meters apart ,,we live on the 1and 6 route in Brunswick .Be interested in understanding how this would affect the and benefit the system,, apart from us having better access to the other routes.

Congrats on 20K subscribers, and I'm absolutely chuffed that the video I suggested you do (i.e. the Waverley Park one) is one of your two all-time favourites. I feel somehow honoured. By the way, your Yan Yean to Reservoir video is probably my favourite as well. Cheers!

Thanks Philip for providing amazing urban planning content :D

Fantastic and interesting channel. One of my favourites.

Springy Road, Dandy Road, and Centre Road. Pedestrians need a cut lunch to get across. It was the largest intersection in the Southern Hemisphere at one point I believe. Must be worse than ever now with traffic.

Over in Templestowe along Fitzsimons lane Vicroads removed 2 huge roundabouts after years of re engineering and adding traffic lights & methods decided in the end to completely remove the roundabouts and re designed with traffic lights and extra lanes. Widening & removing age old trees some people weren’t happy with the project. Another massive roundabout was removed in mill park /lalor dalton rd and traffic lights installed. Don’t think a roundabout is the answer

That does seem like a mess. classic mistake to think that by making a junction bigger it can handle more but it just means it's red for longer. Use 3D. over and under and maybe not everything needs to join at exactly the same place. 4 lanes might be able to handle more than 6 lanes if there are no traffic lights constantly blocking everything. Roundabouts also works sometimes. I wouldn't be surprised if a simple 2 lane roundabout could handle all that. Quite the simplification

Congratulations Philip … I see you have far more than 20k subscribers already. Really enjoy your videos! 👌

lol fare system ! The vast majority of Victorians do not pay on trams or buses!

Easily one of the most boring places in the city. You can even see how empty it is. Everyone's at QV instead.

Congratulations on your milestone. Uhm.. we might not *need* tram conductors, but i feel we do need at least one staff member on each team. For security at a bare minimum. Radio connect to HQ or police at all times. How many times have unrurly passengers gotten away with reckless abandoned, bc the driver can't see or stop or do anything immediately. Also a member of staff would easily stop fare evasion, that is rampant out there.

Good point about freight. Even bringing back something like the off peak parcels vans would do a lot to alleviate road traffic

Loving the local videos! I got into urban planning last year but only saw videos from the US/Canada (Not Just Bikes, RM Transit, About Here) and so it’s great to find local videos. I like watching Building Beautifully and Transport Vlog too, but it’s really led me to watch lots of smaller local UA-camrs: Taitset, Julian O’Shea (mostly Shorts), MetroManMelbourne, Straya Trains, Qazzy, CityMoose, and specifically for housing in Melbourne I watch PurplePingersTV.

That's so cool that we have the same favourite trams :) With your point about safety on public transport, I see a lot of online discourse that public transport is unsafe, or have friends that will choose to drive or get an Uber instead of the train/tram because of perceived safety risks

I screamed “yes” when you said B2

Two ideas for future investigation, both airport related. 1. The missing rail link to MEL Airport, particularly as there is a rail spur 5km away at Essendon/Airport West. 2. The projected future airport in the South East of Melbourne (eg Cranbourne/Clyde area)

Live in Northcote, N16.....now 3070.

Melbourne has been overrun ethnic ghettos in most suburbs the Anglo culture is getting lost to foreigners non of these people would fight for the country 30 percent foreign born population it’s a joke

I would rather have conductors rather than inspectors. Either way, you have physical staff on the network except one is there to help qnd the other is there to hand out fines.

"what's something that melbourne could learn from transport systems elsewhere in australia?" tressteleg1 says that gold coast trams have priority at intersections. melbourne trams do not.

Pretty sure it goes up behind Zone 20 … long ago I got a V-Line service from Batemans Bay, and the little display near the driver said 28 or 29 (I can check my notes if you’re interested). It was part of a trip I did from Sydney to Melbourne via the coast, but I couldn’t QUITE do it with public transport 100%. Not that Victoria didn’t carry MORE than its fair share here, but there was a gap between Nowra and Batemans Bay. I could have used entirely CountryLink and V-Link if I went via Canberra and Bombala, which is the traditional way to the far south coast of NSW (Eden, Bega, etc). But if I did it again I would look into the regional buses, particularly since Opal made buses a lot easier for anything slightly beyond the inner west or Strathfield haha! (Context: Government bus/train tickets pre-Opal only worked for the bus regions that were historically part of the Sydney tram footprint, give or take). The actual limit of the Opal network is actually something of a mystery, even to a big nerd like me that holds the record for the furthest travelled in one day (for free … but let’s be honest, it’s probably a record for paid, too).

Can't agree on the conductors and technology. They pay pso's to book people instead of having conductors.

Congratulations Philip. Credit where credit is due - don't undermine what you have provided in the four years on this channel. I'm sure that 50K subscribers won't be too far away. Keep it up.

Congratulations Philip on reaching 20k subscribers! I enjoy watching your videos as the topic of the content as really interesting.

Congratulations on reaching 20,000+ subscribers. Speaking as someone from the United States and regarding safety, I took my first trip to Switzerland last year, and I was amazed at the number of women I saw traveling alone at 5:30 in the morning and 23:00 at night. When I lived in Portland, Oregon, you would see a few women traveling alone at those hours, but nowhere close to the numbers I saw in Zurich by a long shot. Right now I think the perception of transit in the US is probably at a low point and a lot of that has to do with the political discourse right now in the US where cites have been declared bad by one end of the political spectrum.

wtf is bus way ?

Really enjoying your videos mate, thanks for all that you do. If you are considering making regional Victoria a focus, I'd love to see your take on the decision to remove trams in a historical city such as Ballarat. Maybe a visit for the warmer months, though.

I remember going to the Museum in Russell Street as a child in the late 70s on a school excursion. As someone commented, it was dark and dusty with displays of insects and butterflies, everything you’d imagine a museum to be. I remember a large glass display containing Phar Lap’s embalmed body in the foyer. Then of course they had to change the name of the city loop station from the lovely ‘Museum’ to the mundane ‘Melbourne Central’.

Love your work mate! Keep it going.

Congratulations, Phillip Malliis.

Massive congrats on getting to 20,000 subscribers Philip! Very well deserved, frankly you deserve twice as many subscribers. And thank you for answering my questions; I really enjoyed your video on Waverley Park. Here's to the next 10k, and hopefully many more!

You'll have to edit this video as it's now inaccurate. Haha joking ;) 5 hours since posting and you're now up to 24.3k subscribers! I've been subscribed for a while now as I appreciate your informative and entertaining videos. Keep up the great work, mate, and well done on reaching this milestone!!!

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After the way the state Premieres acted during covid, and the complete dissection from the federal government, I can very much see the states having their own standing army force.

There are a few that are a problem in Melbourne, But one of the worst locally to me is in Somerville, The Eramosa Road/ Frankston Flinders road/ Grant road roundabout/Intersection is awful because while not as busy as Spaghetti Junction,(Which as a daily user is not that bad nowadays with the split turning lanes on Prinny Hwy and Centre road) it also includes a Level Crossing in the mess as well as an additional intersection on the other side of the rails for Jones road. Also due to the home on the corner of Grant road and Frankston flinders Road, Turning out of grant road is basically a blind turn into a roundabout where the main traffic flows from FF Road to itself, but also 2 left turns on the roundabout mean that seeing a left hand indicator does not mean you can pull out of the road. also When you are turning right from FF road to Eramosa Road you must do a U-turn around the roundabout due to not enough space being available for traffic to build up at the level crossing. As the urban expansion continues this intersection has continued to become worse and with it not being a metro line the level crossing is here to stay for the immediate future.

bike racks on busses are also incredibly helpful when someone cycling has a mechanical issue and needs to get home via PT rather than finishing the journey via bike (or when there's a bus replacement for a train link that you were intending to catch but didn't know until you got to the station...)

No mention of the rail to airport project ? And congrats on the 20k 👏 which has increased by 4,300 in the last couple of weeks!

CONGRATULATIONS PHILIP. kind Regards ! !

No way we have the same fav trams. Mine is also tied C2 ans B2

Very good video, I hope you do more of these Q & A videos

Great video, thanks Philip - always interesting to hear your informed and nuanced takes on Melbournian transport planning, and congratulations on nearing 25K subscribers now - much deserved.

Congrats Phil for reaching 20k.Me and my girlfriend are all Chinese immigrants living in Melbourne for 15+ years. I recently recommend your video to my her who is a primary school teacher and she immediately showed you video about the drinking fountains to the kids during lunch break and they loved it ! Plus she is a coffee lover and she is surprised to learn the concept of "coffee palace" ever existed in Melbourne and the large grass gap in M3 freeway supposed to be the Doncaster train line ! I personally really loved your recent "why" series videos cuz as immigrants to Australia/Melbourne we never know this part of the history for the city and always loved to learn more about it. And hopefully we could see more videos from you about the history of why Melbourne is like the Melbourne today.

Will you ever go into politics? I'm sure that you will be a awesome Planning Minister

Interesting that airport rail didn't rate a mention as either an old or future infrastructure project, feels like it's never going to happen

Congrats on 20000 Subs.. I've been loving learning about Melbourne. Question you had about Tram Conductors.. I can remember as a child my parents telling how the Tram got held up for ages near the Zoo & no one knew why. So the Tram Conductor held a "Sing a long" on the Tram & kept everyone entertained & happy until the Tram got started again.. ;-)

Question for the next milestone Q&A or otherwise.... Why do we rely so heavily on myki ticket data versus having simple infra red laser scanners to count passenger movement on and off vehicles. Anomolus data can eazily be taken out if some kid runs there hand back and forth over it

Congratulations on reaching the 20K milestone. A suggestion for a future video: history of Victoria's universities.

Glad your channel is growing and that people are interested, also thanks for your work! :) Hopefully you will be able to do it full time! :)

I MISS Melbourne

23:31 It's interesting because coming from a country like Italy or more specifically a small city I think signs for transport is pretty good here... But I guess it's because in my country of birth it is not that good lol