Nick Montgomery
@nickmontgomery.bsky.social
Mad keen trail runner into the usual inner city stuff: bikes, urban design, environment.
Secretary of Cross Country Skiing Association Victoria.
Secretary of Cross Country Skiing Association Victoria.
Love a relevant notification from PTV! The closure is 18 months old and I am getting the notification because I occasionally use one of the stations on the same line, at least 10km away.
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Love a relevant notification from PTV! The closure is 18 months old and I am getting the notification because I occasionally use one of the stations on the same line, at least 10km away.
Neither Transport Victoria nor Metro Trains are on here, but this map of how to get to the replacement bus stop at Merri Station is very unhelpful as it is placed on the wrong (eastern) platform, providing no instructions for crossing the tracks.
October 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Neither Transport Victoria nor Metro Trains are on here, but this map of how to get to the replacement bus stop at Merri Station is very unhelpful as it is placed on the wrong (eastern) platform, providing no instructions for crossing the tracks.
Good on the guy in the middle! Looks like Yimby Melbourne aren't on here, but they should be!
July 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Good on the guy in the middle! Looks like Yimby Melbourne aren't on here, but they should be!
I get that Melbourne Airport is building a new pickup/dropoff system but this one doesn't work at all. There is a zone for people to wait that no one uses, then everyone waits for 10 minutes or more in the 1 minute pickup zone. Those that do the right thing are punished by the traffic this causes!
February 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I get that Melbourne Airport is building a new pickup/dropoff system but this one doesn't work at all. There is a zone for people to wait that no one uses, then everyone waits for 10 minutes or more in the 1 minute pickup zone. Those that do the right thing are punished by the traffic this causes!
Just a reminder that the Federal Government could have funded remote firefighting as recommended after 2016 but refused. A travesty.
I still don't understand how this isn't huge news. This is absolutely iconic Tasmanian alpine vegetation — around Cradle Mountain ffs — about to be burnt and killed, TONIGHT.
The 'Canning Peak' fire is now approaching Lake Will, south of Cradle Mountain. Goodbye pencil pines.
(The limited fire detections visible here will be due to current cloud cover, not reduced fire extent. Detection satellites cannot see through cloud.)
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(The limited fire detections visible here will be due to current cloud cover, not reduced fire extent. Detection satellites cannot see through cloud.)
firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#t:tsd;d...
February 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Just a reminder that the Federal Government could have funded remote firefighting as recommended after 2016 but refused. A travesty.
Reposted by Nick Montgomery
A reminder that we really need that federal remote area firefighting team which was proposed after the inquiry into the 2016 Tasmania fires...
Overland Track remains closed as crews battle bushfires in Tasmanian wilderness area
Overland Track remains closed as crews battle bushfires in Tasmanian wilderness area
Departures halted on popular walking trail and warnings issued for west coast towns as fires ignited by dry lightning remain out of control
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February 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
A reminder that we really need that federal remote area firefighting team which was proposed after the inquiry into the 2016 Tasmania fires...
New Orleans has had more snow than Anchorage this year. Usually a cold outbreak away from the equator corresponds to extremely warm conditions elsewhere thanks to 1.5 degrees of warming
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
New Orleans has had more snow than Anchorage this year. Usually a cold outbreak away from the equator corresponds to extremely warm conditions elsewhere thanks to 1.5 degrees of warming
Reposted by Nick Montgomery
The fire burnt the Mt William plateau, a precious bit of high country in Western vic, with a subspecies of snow gum. It must have been nasty up there, the comms tower was burnt. Likely terrible damage to the snow gum woodlands.
'Considerable environmental damage' from Victoria blaze - as it happened
->The Guardian | #EnvironmentalDamage | More info from EcoSearch
->The Guardian | #EnvironmentalDamage | More info from EcoSearch
'Considerable environmental damage' from Victoria blaze - as it happened
2h ago 02.17 EST Victoria bushfires: What we know so far We’re wrapping up our live coverage of the bushfires in Victoria. Here are the day’s main updates: Victoria has faced one of its most dangerous fire days in years,...
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:39 AM
The fire burnt the Mt William plateau, a precious bit of high country in Western vic, with a subspecies of snow gum. It must have been nasty up there, the comms tower was burnt. Likely terrible damage to the snow gum woodlands.
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Big shift in winds and smoke plume from the large #Grampians #bushfire 🔥 has now dragged smoke fully over #Melbourne . Clearly seen by #Himawari-9 🛰️today with heat signatures in reds/yellows #Melbourneweather
December 20, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Big shift in winds and smoke plume from the large #Grampians #bushfire 🔥 has now dragged smoke fully over #Melbourne . Clearly seen by #Himawari-9 🛰️today with heat signatures in reds/yellows #Melbourneweather
Basically climate change is going to look like a series of regular hot fires that slowly but surely cause our forests to collapse in a patchwork across the landscape, before we realise (around now) there is hardly any healthy forest left.
Welcome to the pyrocene.
Strap yourselves in. We may be here for some time.
Strap yourselves in. We may be here for some time.
December 20, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Basically climate change is going to look like a series of regular hot fires that slowly but surely cause our forests to collapse in a patchwork across the landscape, before we realise (around now) there is hardly any healthy forest left.
On the topic of City of Yarra good deeds, the native flower meadow planted earlier this year at Rushall Reserve is looking great! My own nature strip (in Darebin) for comparison.
November 28, 2024 at 4:30 AM
On the topic of City of Yarra good deeds, the native flower meadow planted earlier this year at Rushall Reserve is looking great! My own nature strip (in Darebin) for comparison.
Reposted by Nick Montgomery
the power broker is the ring cycle for straight men
November 28, 2024 at 4:12 AM
the power broker is the ring cycle for straight men
Nice to see some more incremental improvements to City of Yarra's bike network. This avoids a perilous weave across Rushall Crescent. @streetsaliveyarra.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Nice to see some more incremental improvements to City of Yarra's bike network. This avoids a perilous weave across Rushall Crescent. @streetsaliveyarra.bsky.social
I love how we always end up at dense walkable neighbourhoods!
"Oh, but this just shows the nerdy, detail-obsessed nature of Japanese people," you say. Perhaps. But these publications can't exist without a distribution system (i.e., newsstands). And those newsstands can't exist without *dense walkable neighborhoods.*
November 27, 2024 at 9:39 AM
I love how we always end up at dense walkable neighbourhoods!