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Publisher of rail maps & public transport timetables. Photographer, public transport advocate, enjoyer of irony and life’s little incongruities. Ethics matter. #PantosUp

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Integrity Coachlines, who run long distance buses from Perth to Broome via Geraldton and the coast, and from Perth to Port Hedland via Meekatharra and Newman, has a livery that looks a heck of a lot like a 2010s VLine paint job. www.integritycoachlines.com.au

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Public transport advocates will be familiar with the Jevons Paradox and the mistaken belief that building 'one more lane' will fix road traffic congestion. Well guess what? It looks like Jevons could be 'fuelling' the AI bubble too.

Greg Shill@gregshill.com

Jevons update: The AI-use anecdotes I hear from medicine are the same as law: it’s juicing demand (for tests, interrogatories, etc.) by generating more ideas, which is then expressed in higher spending. I don’t know that we have good, global evidence yet but this is consistent with what we do know.

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I like the ironic use of "Sunny Coast" here. "There is a risk of severe storms around the south-east, broadly possible for areas like the Sunny Coast, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and likely for areas west of Ipswich and across eastern Darling Downs" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.auStorms set to bring flash flooding, large hail to south-east QueenslandStorms are forecast across Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast this morning with another round possible in the afternoon and early evening.

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Prof Ray Wills
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Replying to @lakitukl.bsky.social

CountryNet a community-led ambition for better regional passenger connections, tourism services and freight infrastructure The proposition that regional rail should be planned as infrastructure for economic development, accessibility and the energy transition – not just reopening old lines!

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I am going to have to do a bit of re-work on my updated Sydney Rail Map to undo the changes that this new timetable would have introduced. Silly me doing it ahead of time. (Yes there was always going to be a couple of weeks between when the Metro opened and the new Train timetables startd).

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Transport for NSW have today published an update for their GTFS timetable data including the Metro timetables for the extension from Sydenham to Bankstown which opens next Friday, October 30th. And they're now uploaded to the railmaps website at Table no 285 here: railmaps.com.au/routedetails...

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...then one every four minutes through the afternoon peak until 19:03 and then one every 10 minutes through the evening until the final departure at 01:03 the next morning.

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Trains are timetabled to take 27 minutes to reach Central station. During the peaks and daytime, trains are timetabled for 2 minute turnarounds at Bankstown - ie they depart on their return to the city and Tallawaong just two minutes after they are timetabled to arrive.

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Transport for NSW have today published an update for their GTFS timetable data including the Metro timetables for the extension from Sydenham to Bankstown which opens next Friday, October 30th. And they're now uploaded to the railmaps website at Table no 285 here: railmaps.com.au/routedetails...

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Key points: The first passenger carrying train departs Bankstown at 04:31am on Friday October 30, and there are trains every 10 minutes until 06:31, then one every 4 minutes through the morning peak until 09:43, then one every 5 minutes through the middle of the day until 14:43....

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The more I think about this ad, the worse it gets.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Ocean-going ships powered by the wind. Such a thing is surely beyond the comprehension of humankind.

Dreadnought Holiday@dreadships.bsky.social

Every launch party comes with Canopées, and in this case the ESA's Ariane arrives at the spaceport via its very own. Those tower things are actually sails, and they roughly half the amount of fuel being burned.

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Navigational issue with Spirit of Tasmania under investigation just days before the last runs of the current ferries. Spirits 2 & 3 make their last runs tomorrow and Friday, then the new vessels, Spirits 4 & 5, enter service at the end of the month. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

abc.net.auSpirit of Tasmania navigational issue under investigationThe investigation intends to uncover whether a technical fault or human error contributed to the navigational issue involving Spirit of Tasmania I as it approached the Victorian coast last week.
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Correction - that should be Spirit of Tasmania 1 & 2, not 2&3. Sprit 3 was the smaller vessel that ran the short-lived Devonport to Sydney route from 2004 to 2006. I think it is now owned by Irish Ferries and now runs on the Dublin-Holyhead route.

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Turns out it is interesting. NXT was at $9.18 when it was put in a trading halt on Monday. Is now trading at $5.39

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In light of events yesterday, Asher's thread here from just a week ago is very much worth re-reading. Asher is open about the fact that she lives in Wangaratta.

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Asher's thread. Read it.

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Road vehicles are dangerous - both on road and off road. We know it, and we've known it for well over a century. Yet we seem to accept deaths involving cars as some sort of natural price to pay for progress. It doesn't have to be like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comNew details emerge on two killed after woman drove through Kansas soccer gameA boy, six, and woman, 35, were killed and 10 were injured after a woman drove on to the field at a youth soccer game
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On this day in 1985 I was in Binalong, NSW, where I snapped this photo of the northbound Intercapital Daylight train from Melbourne to Sydney, hauled by Alco-engined diesel electric locomotive 8018. That super-tall bracket semaphore signal was a real landmark. October 19 1985.

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This is the sort of thing dreamt up by people who really don't understand or believe in public transport. If we think of public transport just as suburb to city 'commute' trips rather than as a co-ordinated, dense network, it will never get close to its full potential.

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There's some commentary lately expressing concern about supply of 'heating oil' to the eastern USA in their coming winter. Can someone explain to this ignorant Australian just what heating oil is. And how is it used domestically? Do they burn it to heat water or is it used in some sort of fireplace?