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City of Yarra elections – Socialist Party campaign launch

1 November 2008 | Comments Off

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On Saturday 11 October 2008 I attended the election campaign launch of the Socialist Party for the City of Yarra local government elections to be held on 29 November 2008. During November I will be featuring regular posts about the election, the major policy issues and what potential councillors plan to do if elected.

Of the parties and individuals who have nominated to contest the City of Yarra elections, the Socialist Party candidates have the clearest policies specifically aimed at improving life in Yarra and a campaign to inform the local community about those policies.…

exposing Yarra Trams propaganda lies

16 August 2008 | 1 Comment

Read the Yarra Trams poster below.

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This poster contains deliberate misinformation. It is pure propaganda and is designed to threaten people into validating tickets when they are not legally required to.

The actual offence is to travel without a valid ticket (a ticket that is current, not expired). There is no legal requirement to revalidate tickets in each segment of a journey within the time period of its validity (2 hours, daily, monthly, etc) and Yarra Trams admitted as such in 2006.…

tram conductors are economically efficient

24 July 2008 | Comments Off

The overpaid underperforming scum otherwise known as state politicians have lied to the Victorian public too many times in relation to public transport policy: lies about validating tickets, about the supposed need to replace our perfectly functional ticket system with the Myki, and about their commitment to providing better services.

Now a new study has revealed that the removal of conductors from trams has cost Victorian taxpayers millions of dollars in lost income due to fare evasion.…

nice one angry fella!

1 June 2008 | Comments Off

NSW public transport user Michael Hart gave the truth to the idiot bureaucrats there about overcrowding on NSW trains. I’d like to do exactly the same to Victorian public transport minister Lyn Kosky over the Myki ticketing debacle, trains that regularly fail to appear for my girlfriend, and trams that are impossibly crowded even outside of peak hours In Fitzroy.

We the public should regularly name and shame the overpaid underperforming scum who make endless excuses but never actually do anything to improve services.…

If it’s public transport, I’ll have what they’re having

24 April 2008 | 2 Comments

Since leaving Perth for Melbourne more than five years ago, there has been very little I miss about Perth. Fabulous beaches with surf for swimming, body surfing and bodyboarding within a 10 minute drive of home? I used to have it and I still miss it enormously. Melbourne does almost everything else significantly better – food, entertainment, arts and employment opportunities.

The only other thing I can think of that Perth does better than Melbourne is TransPerth’s public transport in the CBD – the Free Transit Zone (700kb PDF map).…

corporate extortion

10 April 2008 | 4 Comments

In the past two weeks I’ve been the victim of two attempts of corporate extortion and been infuriated by reading about a third example.

I had a motorcycle accident two weeks ago where a driver turned right across traffic when signs prohibited it and hit me. My damaged bike was towed from the scene of the accident and stored by Garden State towing at their premises in Abbotsford. I arranged with a bike mover to collect my bike from there and move it to the bike repair shop, and Garden State acknowledged and agreed to the date set for it to be picked up.…

good riddance Charles Court

24 December 2007 | Comments Off

Forner WA premier Charles Court is dead at last. The Liberal who made Jeff Kennett look like a complete socialist will not be missed. The only thing he did that I noticed as a child in Perth when he was premier was that he shut down the Perth – Fremantle railway line. I went with my parents to a protest against this, which was my first political rally. What a visionary he was to see that public transport reduced the profits of his oil industry mates, and hence had to be removed.…