Peter Campbell's blog

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic  The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption for life as we know it.  In no part...

Here is my list of priority issues for the 2014 Victorian state election Transport The East West Link tunnel road project should not pr...

When Denis Napthine took over from Ted Baillieu as Premier of Victoria in March 2013 he took charge of government that many thought had los...

Denis Napthine, Michael O'Brien and the Liberal government have just made a disastrous and very expensive mistake. They announced tha...

Photos taken at Flinders Street station provide more evidence that the Myki system is a failure. Don't wave, don't swipe, don'...

I have started work again in Melbourne's CBD.  The trains during "peak hours" are much busier than when I previously commuted ...

So now we have the new Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, launching Labor's election campaign less than a week before the election wit...

Melbourne suffered a extreme outage today.  Nearly every train line was affected when a train's pentagraph (the bit that connects to the...

After decades of far too little in investment in public transport, pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, our roads are now grindng to a hal...

Transport Minister Lyn Kosky has just quit politics, but the public transport debacle is not just her fault - it lies with the Labor governm...

After several decades of neglect, Melbourne's public transport system is now running at capacity and old infrastructure is failing. Som...

Below is a map of the 1969 freeway plan for Melbourne. This is part of the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan commissioned by then Victo...

I attended a public hearing today in Melbourne (Monday 30/3/09) of the "Inquiry into the investment of Commonwealth and State funds in ...

Well, the transport plan is now out. I have read the Overview and attended the last part of the GAMUT forum held to discuss it yesterday. T...