Measuring public infrastructure failure

Thursday, January 29. 2009

Measuring public infrastructure failure

There is one way to measure failure. Visit the Connex Transport website.

Can't get to it?!
Ohh... that would be due to the fact that all Melbournians are attempting to find out what the hell happened to their bus/tram/train today.
Expect a long walk home people.

The website should return sometime next week.

So far Connex officials have blamed everything this month for the rash of cancellations... with one exception - themselves.

Thank goodness I'm outta Melbourne and their woeful public transport (it's an oxymoron -- nothing is being transported at present).

Posted by Matt in News, Work at 16:25 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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I don't use the public transport (lucky few), but the rail network failure is just so bad.

Do they ever do maintain those tracks? Connex is lucky to be running a train network infrastructure in the southern hemisphere. I coudn't imagine it succeeding in running a network in one of the asian countries... where every day the temperature is in the range of 30~35 degrees

#1 Jeffery Fernandez (Homepage) on 2009-01-29 16:58 (Reply)

Jeffrey, the problem is that most of the railway lines are using timber sleepers. This means that the rails can buckle in the heat. If they used concrete sleepers, like on Perth's new Mandurah line, then the rails aren't able to move.

Unfortunately, there's no Victorian government program to resleeper all the rails.

#1.1 Paul (Homepage) on 2009-01-29 17:05 (Reply)

Bannockburn has pretty dismal public transport too: three buses a day from Geelong to Bannockburn, according to the Metlink website.

Hardly world class, eh?

#2 Paul (Homepage) on 2009-01-29 17:01 (Reply)

That's the point.

Why go anywhere when ya perfectly happy where you are.

#2.1 Matt (Homepage) on 2009-01-29 17:15 (Reply)

wow timber sleepers? Thats so last century. Even the tracks in the rural village where I come from, in India have concrete sleepers.

#3 Jeffery Fernandez (Homepage) on 2009-01-30 12:47 (Reply)

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