low floor buses

as the train flies

September 18, 2010

The ironic thing is that according to this and the accessible bus timetable for the inner west of Sydney on a Saturday I could probably get to lunch in Melbourne some 963 km away faster than I can travel from outside a depot next door up the road to lunch 4kms away. To the extent [...]

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An open letter — rant, long — updated

February 24, 2010

Updated today with the letter that I actually sent this am An open letter to the Minister for Transport the Honourable Mr David Campbell MP GPO Box 5341 SYDNEY NSW 2001 Dear Sir, I’m told I tell a great story whether fiction or fact. My education and experiences over many years has reinforced that telling [...]

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The wheels of the bus

August 3, 2009

The last few weeks have been quite remarkable. Remarkable in a good way I hasten to add. My experiences with mass transit have worked. Consistently. Seamlessly. They just have. The ramps of the rear loading buses have largely worked; and, on the few occasions when they haven’t worked first time the drivers have tried a [...]

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