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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 9h

I lived in fear of this day, and it’s here. I finally got called out by The Onion

The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 19h

stanced up in the convention centre breakout room

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

thank god

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

do you have one of those terrifying sink blenders too

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

only like, Bigger Buildings get basements and usually just for carparks here

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

illuminated manuscript perhaps

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

still kinda crazy to me that you guys actually have basements at home over there

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

make sure to double up on your antihistamines today folks

Melbourne Pollen Count and Forecast @melbournepollen.bsky.social · 1d

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Note: Other locations within Victoria have a High forecast today.

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

here's the sources so you can make up your own mind.

link to the press release from this morning:
www.premier.vic.gov.au/metro-tunnel...

big build link: bigbuild.vic.gov.au/use-metro-tu...

Jacinta Allan post on twitter from 7:53pm tonight: twitter.com/JacintaAllan...

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The Metro Tunnel Will Open In December – One Year Early

Get ready, Victoria. The Metro Tunnel will open in early December with hundreds of new services a week.Premier Jacinta Allan and Minister for Transport Infrastructure Gabrielle Williams today announce...

www.premier.vic.gov.au

melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

they can address this easily by just making it consistent, or releasing a sample timetable of post Feb. but I'm worried they'll put off Watergardens getting a full 10 minute service all the time. for all the talk of superhubs and activity centres, why run trains empty past WeFo just to stable? (4/5)

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

these aren't necessarily incompatible with each other (eg. some pre-6am/post-9pm trains run empty to/from west Footscray to stable in Calder Park/elsewhere), but why lead with West Footscray instead of Watergardens as the headline twice after the initial press release said Watergardens? (3/5)

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

possible interpretations of these 3 different official government channels today:

press release, no days specified, so:
1a) 6tph Watergardens - Dandenong, 6am-9pm M-F?
1b) 6tph Watergardens - Dandenong, 6am-9pm M-Su?

big build/JA post
2) 6 tph WeFo - Dandenong, M-Su, first to last (2/5)

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

so looking at the info released about the "big switch" on 1 Feb 2026, and we get 2 quite different headlines from this morning's press release, the big build website/a Jacinta Allan post on twitter at earlier tonight.

is it 6tph Watergardens - Dandenong, or just West Footscray - Dandenong? (1/5)

extract of press release which says "Trains will run at least every 10 minutes between Watergardens and Dandenong stations between 6:00am to 9:00pm through the Metro Tunnel."

A screenshot of the big build page about the metro tunnel opening, which says "This increase in services means passengers from West Footscray to Dandenong will have a train at least every 10 minutes all day, every day of the week. Peak services will be on average every 3 to 4 minutes for passengers between Watergardens and Dandenong."

A screenshot of a Jacinta Allan post on twitter which says "trains arriving at least every 10 minutes from first to last trains between West Footscray and Dandenong stations."

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

"yank" seems to mean jerk and I think "pod" means some kind of spaceship

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

happy to report it's after 5pm here, drink up soldier

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 1d

this seems to be the case yes

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

worried about all this carry on in a meeting... girl you need to be worried about becoming carrion!

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

need a metronet dictatorship to nip this in the bud

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

April fools has long since passed I'm afraid

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

it's literally in that screenshot?

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

it's every 60 to Sunbury, every 20 in the core. so just existing service levels until Feb

bigbuild.vic.gov.au/use-metro-tu...

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

perfect way to launch your landmark $15 billion dollar project

bigbuild.vic.gov.au/use-metro-tu...

Using the Metro Tunnel

Explore how your journey will change when the Metro Tunnel opens, with 5 new train stations delivering better connections across the city.

bigbuild.vic.gov.au

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

ahahahahaha fucks sake they actually are only opening it between 10am and 3pm and only running trains every 20 minutes to start.

talk about an own goal. at least February is better news

melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know why the age didn't bother to include these quotes, but it's good to see my assumptions about ONRSR approvals being the last stumbling block vindicated.

but if the rewriting of the timetables isn't even done yet, you've got to wonder what the hell has been happening the last 4 years

screenshots of guardian articles about the new tunnels. screenshot reads: "Williams said the “most comprehensive re-timetabling of our network in living memory” was also under way to make way from the tunnel. She said this work made the project different to New South Wales’ Sydney Metro, which opened in August 2024.

“The Sydney Metro is effectively a shuttle. The Melbourne Metro tunnel is not,” she said. “It is integrated with the rest of our rail network, which means that when we timetable for the Metro Tunnel, we have to re-timetable virtually our entire rail network and, of course, connecting bus services and the like as well.”

Allan said the next step was to get final approvals from the national rail safety regulator.

The Sydney Metro opening was delayed for a fortnight after it failed to receive its approvals in time. Allan said “we’ve learned from that” and would announce an opening date in due course.

“I appreciate there’s a hunger and eagerness to know the opening date and to know the timetable,” she said.

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

we're getting a tunnel next year so do it

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melbourne metropolitan busways board @mmbb.bsky.social · 2d

you're closer than you think

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