Today Tonight on Melbourne PT

public transport current affairs report

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• pt4me2;
• melbourne;
• trains;
• trams;
• busses

[whosonfirst88]

As much as I hate Today Tonight, there is a point to be made about public transport in Melbourne. Services on train, bus and tram are not run often enough, and routes do not often serve purposes needed by users. Investment must be made NOW or the problems will cripple Melbourne's already unhealthy system

[3aw77]

Get rid of all State Government's and Today tonight , Then Melbourne mite be the place to be

[carlohilton]

@Beanseventeen Really depends where in the Cities you live. Overall Sydney is cheaper but in turn you don't get to switch modes.

[Dimitri0809]

You would prefer traffic congestion than train congestion, they are both practically the same!

[Romerjon17]

0:35 That guy at the background is late for the train :)

[YotJoey]

Try compare the train fares in Melbourne to train fares in Singapore or Hong Kong

[Beanseventeen]

Thats bull crap wat she says at the begginin.. Melbournes train fares are cheap compared to Sydney.. its almost as cheap as Perth where i am

[WantToBeAmerican1]

Maybe they should go to Tokyo.

[TheMemberForHiggins]

Of course more trains would cost money. But buying more trains and carefully adjusting timetables to achieve greater throughput is considerably less expensive than, for example, building extra, unecessary tunnels. Unfortunately governments tend to focus on these latter hideously expensive infrastructure projects, get scared by the costs and then give up on doing anything at all. Meanwhile the EXISTING network of tracks, including the city loop, are still left with unused capacity.

[TheMemberForHiggins]

Yeah, that's a pretty solid summary of the long-standing misconceptions that abound. I don't say it often, but congratulations Today Tonight for busting some popular myths on prime-time commercial television.

[vrgunzel]

So if a train has defective brakes, do you want it in service?