It appears to be a "Fuji" Volvo B10ML. There used to be a few of them in Adelaide with various operators... Yes, a Fuji artic—in its original context, namely Expo '85 in Tsukuba, Japan. Several of them were used by Brisbane City Council from 1986 onwards, mainly on Cityxpress services. I ...

Probably a Bedford SB. Definitely a route bus in dark blue livery, run by New Zealand Railways, between Waiuku and Papakura (the latter being the southernmost part of Auckland), in the early '80s. The equivalent route nowadays (at least geographically) would be the 395.

I found a video tape from 1982 showing an intelligent documentary with Phillip Adams of a standard that you would expect to see on ABC or SBS. It was on Seven. :shock: On a commercial channel! I wouldn't have expected that, but they obviously saw the possibility of it gaining enough of an audience ...

crazyturbo76 wrote:Australia Post are quickly replacing their iconic postie bikes with newer Vespa-like Honda bikes.

Vespa riders will have you flayed alive!

So I guess we won't be hearing the squeaking of the brakes from way down the road, long before the postie gets to your house?

Favourite band? Cardiacs.



Favourite currently-active band? Major Parkinson.

Spotted today was a 1940s Bentley (complete with "semaphore" indicators), with the personalised number-plate NWO[three digits]. Hmmm...

Finally, a launch date has been confirmed: there'll be a day of free travel on Sunday 20 July, followed by the commencement of revenue services (plus the bus improvements) on Monday the 21st.

TransLink

I kept the docket of our last big shop at the supermarket in Plzen and for our typical major shop of 60 items it was about $90 ... Come back to Australia and the similar 60 items at Coles first time is $375 In other words, three times as much in real terms, if ILO figures (average wages in PPP doll...

The reason that, in aggregate, women are paid less, is because they work less. They work more part time. They quit their jobs more often. They won't do the hard or inconvenient jobs. They retire earlier. Women are, in aggregate, slacker, because socially they can get away with being slacker. They a...

Bedford-29 wrote:Here is one closing down for the night theme I remember that channel 7 used.

It was in 1969, but I suppose they realised we'd be getting colour before too long (the decision to adopt PAL colour having been announced the previous year).

From across the ditch: televised sheepdog trials.

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-dogs-show-1981

1whoknows wrote:Even Dubai was OK as the Destos scroll in both Arabic and English. Only issue there was the lack of any useful system map either in print or on line.

Turns out there's an excellent bus map for Dubai:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qdw1984aveyf2 ... ap_914.pdf

SuperMercC615 wrote:Just watch, it'll happen.

It already has.

Watching Sesame Street on a Philips black & white TV (the first one on this page). Tabletop Pac-Man. Bug-catchers. Almost getting the strap in Year 4, only to have the strap miss by a huge margin; then being told to scram by the count of five to avoid really getting a thrashing. The Hanimex Inte...

tranzitjim wrote:Bus driving is one job that can not be exported.

But the drivers can be imported...

Not YouTube as such, but...

http://digg.com/video/what-you-get-when ... n-ant-hill

Making a cool artwork, whilst getting rid of fire-ants at the same time!

Daza wrote:If you were say in Camlet St wishing to go to Garden City don't bother as the service probably won't even turn up.

If you were in Camlet St, you'd most likely be pond-scum anyway, and therefore a danger to the driver and passengers.

I will never understand why Yarra Trams ... repainted the whole fleet out of the green & yellow into a light grey, that camouflaged the trams in wintery/ foggy conditions To distinguish themselves from Swanston Trams/M>Tram, when the system was split in two. I'm glad the new livery remedies tha...

Off The Rails wrote:Please tell me you didn't listen to the whole thing

Only several seconds. It gets off to a slow start; I guess the remaining 11 hours and 59 minutes allow time for plot development, but that's not a given.

(Doesn't sound like it's in stereo, though. Oh well...)

^^ If the "thank for post" option was extended to The Lunch Room, I'd click the "thank button" right now. No sinking to the lowest common demoninator, or dragging their own down to Third-World standards, for them.

nikko wrote:

simonl wrote:People would be crabby and vow never to use public transport again in the first week.

And that's precisely how they'll behave when the savage cuts are introduced in October. But don't count on them crawling back to PT after that week.

08 XDi wrote:

moreton wrote:People should be blaming BCC and nobody else for the cuts

...Plus the state transport minister for caving in to the BCC, just like a parent letting a bratty child have their own way to avoid a temper tantrum. The planned TransLink review would've saved BCC a ton of money.

Considering the vast majority of Australians are motorists and do not use of have any interest in public transport, what is going to happen to us, as transport enthusiasts, over the coming years? We'll be even more marginalised and stigmatised, "'cos that sorta thing's UNOSTRAYAN!!!!11!1!!&quo...

drpeps wrote:Here's my shot of the rear of the Bova showing its badge in the rear window

Why is there a figure of 100 in (what's presumably) the speed limiter sign, given that speeds are in miles per hour? Is the UK switching to km in the near future?