samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 22 2008 | google, software, web apps, public transport, australia"While Perth will be the first Australian city with Google Transit, company officials said the search firm was in talks with other state transport authorities and expected the service eventually to be available Australia-wide."
Good luck Google if you're bringing this to Melbourne. Unless you cater for our broken system, all Google Transit will do is remind us what public transport should be.
"Why don't we have all the (applications) on the network - and by the way it's free," Mr Schmidt said in a dig at Microsoft."
Arrogant twat. Nice to see he conveniently forgets that we're actually giving Google all our data for free so they can effectively on-sell it and make more money at our expense. There's no such thing as a free lunch, people.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 27 2007 | public transport
"PRIVATE transport companies could operate and fund major expansions of Melbourne's train and tram networks through long-term contracts, taking pressure off Victorian taxpayers... Singapore's SMRT Transit and Hong Kong's MTR Corporation have also expressed interest in taking control of Melbourne's suburban rail network from November 2009."
Bring it on I say - the MTR and SMRT are two of the best run public transport systems in the world. They're efficient, on-time, and profitable. They'll struggle with the size of Melbourne's system though - it's massive and inefficiently designed compared to their networks.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 03 2007 | public transport, maps
Metlink, Melbourne's public transport website, has just added google-style maps to its journey planner. You can now click where you want to go on a map; useful when you don't know what the exact address is.
I wonder what mapping platform they're using, as there are no copyright notices on the maps...
Good work Metlink! Now let's get some of the things I suggested working (http://driveactivated.com/blog/archive/2007/01/08/bringing-metlink-s-website-up-to-speed.aspx)
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