Great stuff Philip, its been great to see your videos generating so much interest, especially in some very neiche local topics! I'm glad you were inspired to do the visuals like this too, it was very good watching. :)
Congrats Phil for reaching 20k.Me and my girlfriend are all Chinese immigrants living in Melbourne for 15+ years. I recently recommend your video to my her who is a primary school teacher and she immediately showed you video about the drinking fountains to the kids during lunch break and they loved it ! Plus she is a coffee lover and she is surprised to learn the concept of "coffee palace" ever existed in Melbourne and the large grass gap in M3 freeway supposed to be the Doncaster train line ! I personally really loved your recent "why" series videos cuz as immigrants to Australia/Melbourne we never know this part of the history for the city and always loved to learn more about it. And hopefully we could see more videos from you about the history of why Melbourne is like the Melbourne today.
Thank you very much indeed Philip for the tag. Much appreciated and congrats on the continued growth of your channel. I always look forward to each instalment.
Names of the institutions seem to change annually as smaller schools gobbled up... eg MTC-RMIT TC and UC -RMIT U .... Caulfield IT - Chisholm IT - Monash U ... Footscray IT to VU ... Gordon IT to Deakin U.
Massive congrats on getting to 20,000 subscribers Philip! Very well deserved, frankly you deserve twice as many subscribers. And thank you for answering my questions; I really enjoyed your video on Waverley Park. Here's to the next 10k, and hopefully many more!
No worries at all and thank you - keep up the great work! And I can highly recommend a drone if you can get your hands on one. Even an older DJI drone that you can get on sale is a really fun experience.
Well done! It was only yesterday (More like a few months ago) you reached 10k subscribers, so this is a testament to your commitment and passion to Melbourne’s history
bike racks on busses are also incredibly helpful when someone cycling has a mechanical issue and needs to get home via PT rather than finishing the journey via bike (or when there's a bus replacement for a train link that you were intending to catch but didn't know until you got to the station...)
Congratulations Phillip, I’m delighted to see your fascinating Yan Yean production as favourite. It is mine too. There was something special about that journey of discovery with the present overlaid in history. I’m looking forward to seeing in the near future 30,000 subscribers👏
Congratulations on 20 K , subs, talking off way out planning, I’d like you to investigate a possible bridge from Avalon, to Point Henry to service the Bellarine peninsula! Cheers and enjoyed your thoughts, ❤️🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺
I can second your comment about most planners being from cities. We're kinda forced to be, as most PIA accredited courses are only at urban universities, only exception would be at UNE and La Trobe. It's partially why I had to move to Sydney from Newcastle for my degree, and tbh, I can't recall anyone else in my degree not from Sydney. I've also wanted to do a video on regional planning for a while, because I agree it should be talked about. But like you said, it's a very different discipline, and to talk about it competently would require a lot of research.
Loving the local videos! I got into urban planning last year but only saw videos from the US/Canada (Not Just Bikes, RM Transit, About Here) and so it’s great to find local videos. I like watching Building Beautifully and Transport Vlog too, but it’s really led me to watch lots of smaller local TH-camrs: Taitset, Julian O’Shea (mostly Shorts), MetroManMelbourne, Straya Trains, Qazzy, CityMoose, and specifically for housing in Melbourne I watch PurplePingersTV.
Congrats on 20000 Subs.. I've been loving learning about Melbourne. Question you had about Tram Conductors.. I can remember as a child my parents telling how the Tram got held up for ages near the Zoo & no one knew why. So the Tram Conductor held a "Sing a long" on the Tram & kept everyone entertained & happy until the Tram got started again.. ;-)
Congrats on 20K subscribers, and I'm absolutely chuffed that the video I suggested you do (i.e. the Waverley Park one) is one of your two all-time favourites. I feel somehow honoured. By the way, your Yan Yean to Reservoir video is probably my favourite as well. Cheers!
Pretty sure it goes up behind Zone 20 … long ago I got a V-Line service from Batemans Bay, and the little display near the driver said 28 or 29 (I can check my notes if you’re interested). It was part of a trip I did from Sydney to Melbourne via the coast, but I couldn’t QUITE do it with public transport 100%. Not that Victoria didn’t carry MORE than its fair share here, but there was a gap between Nowra and Batemans Bay. I could have used entirely CountryLink and V-Link if I went via Canberra and Bombala, which is the traditional way to the far south coast of NSW (Eden, Bega, etc). But if I did it again I would look into the regional buses, particularly since Opal made buses a lot easier for anything slightly beyond the inner west or Strathfield haha! (Context: Government bus/train tickets pre-Opal only worked for the bus regions that were historically part of the Sydney tram footprint, give or take). The actual limit of the Opal network is actually something of a mystery, even to a big nerd like me that holds the record for the furthest travelled in one day (for free … but let’s be honest, it’s probably a record for paid, too).
Another questions is about what you think of request stopping? What would be your preferred way to implement it and at what places and times should our transit stop on request.
That's so cool that we have the same favourite trams :) With your point about safety on public transport, I see a lot of online discourse that public transport is unsafe, or have friends that will choose to drive or get an Uber instead of the train/tram because of perceived safety risks
I can’t believe someone knows about the Webb Dock line. Also a bridge over the heads can be quite limiting. We see this with the Westgate bridge and the constraint that it puts on the port of Melbourne. This only became a problem recently as ship sizes increased
Congratulations Philip. Credit where credit is due - don't undermine what you have provided in the four years on this channel. I'm sure that 50K subscribers won't be too far away. Keep it up.
Two ideas for future investigation, both airport related. 1. The missing rail link to MEL Airport, particularly as there is a rail spur 5km away at Essendon/Airport West. 2. The projected future airport in the South East of Melbourne (eg Cranbourne/Clyde area)
Great video, thanks Philip - always interesting to hear your informed and nuanced takes on Melbournian transport planning, and congratulations on nearing 25K subscribers now - much deserved.
Really enjoying your videos mate, thanks for all that you do. If you are considering making regional Victoria a focus, I'd love to see your take on the decision to remove trams in a historical city such as Ballarat. Maybe a visit for the warmer months, though.
Thanks very much! And good suggestion, maybe I'll do a callout for ideas in rural and regional areas. I have trams in Geelong on my list as well to make a video at some point too.
Melbourn has major most visited public parks and gardens that are not aproachable by publick transport, but always away some 2-4 km of walking, what even has no walking path, often one has to walk allong the road. One ex is Cranbourn Botanical garden. I don’t even dare to think mount Macedon. Wombat Botanical garden out of rich. Taxi? Is anywhere else taxi service so not existing?
Congratulations on your milestone. Uhm.. we might not *need* tram conductors, but i feel we do need at least one staff member on each team. For security at a bare minimum. Radio connect to HQ or police at all times. How many times have unrurly passengers gotten away with reckless abandoned, bc the driver can't see or stop or do anything immediately. Also a member of staff would easily stop fare evasion, that is rampant out there.
23:31 It's interesting because coming from a country like Italy or more specifically a small city I think signs for transport is pretty good here... But I guess it's because in my country of birth it is not that good lol
You'll have to edit this video as it's now inaccurate. Haha joking ;) 5 hours since posting and you're now up to 24.3k subscribers! I've been subscribed for a while now as I appreciate your informative and entertaining videos. Keep up the great work, mate, and well done on reaching this milestone!!!
Question for the next milestone Q&A or otherwise.... Why do we rely so heavily on myki ticket data versus having simple infra red laser scanners to count passenger movement on and off vehicles. Anomolus data can eazily be taken out if some kid runs there hand back and forth over it
Congratulations on reaching 20,000+ subscribers. Speaking as someone from the United States and regarding safety, I took my first trip to Switzerland last year, and I was amazed at the number of women I saw traveling alone at 5:30 in the morning and 23:00 at night. When I lived in Portland, Oregon, you would see a few women traveling alone at those hours, but nowhere close to the numbers I saw in Zurich by a long shot. Right now I think the perception of transit in the US is probably at a low point and a lot of that has to do with the political discourse right now in the US where cites have been declared bad by one end of the political spectrum.
Thank you! I have seen some of the discourse now around the US and public transport and it is quite disheartening. Some places seem to be getting improvements though so hopefully that changes soon.
Hello from Perth and well done on reaching 20k subscribers - channels about about public infrastructure and facilities are interesting. Also, interesting in this clip at 27:22, where the buses seem to have their own sort of track system - is that in Melbourne?
Thanks very much! That footage is from the O-Bahn in Adelaide. It's a fantastic piece of infrastructure that is basically a guided busway from the CBD out into the suburbs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway
Thank you Philip, this is one channel I do look forward to. Although one question that's seem to be missed... Would be what would your vision be for expanding the tram network out into the western suburbs into areas such as point cook, Saint Albans, sunshine, deer Park, Williamstown Beyond Footscray? .... And what would you suggest would be the best model: I radial model from the city centre, a hub and spoke model, etc? And how would one implemented it?
Thanks very much, glad you enjoy them! On your question about the western suburbs that's an interesting question that would probably need a whole video to cover! Put simply there are definitely opportunities to improve the public transport network around those suburbs. A tram or light rail could be one solution but this is quite infrastructure heavy. You would probably want to first fix the existing bus network to deliver more reliable and frequent services to prove demand before committing to a tram. I wouldn't think that running trams all the way into the CBD would be the best option either - you would probably want to centre any network around the local major activity centres and railway stations like St Albans, Sunshine, etc. Peter Parker at Melbourneontransit has some great posts on this topic of improving buses in the area which would be a good place to start: melbourneontransit.blogspot.com/2019/08/building-melbournes-useful-network-part.html As I said there's a lot more to this but hopefully that's a good start!
I would rather have conductors rather than inspectors. Either way, you have physical staff on the network except one is there to help qnd the other is there to hand out fines.
After the way the state Premieres acted during covid, and the complete dissection from the federal government, I can very much see the states having their own standing army force.
"what's something that melbourne could learn from transport systems elsewhere in australia?" tressteleg1 says that gold coast trams have priority at intersections. melbourne trams do not.
Yes that is very true! I was extremely impressed when I went to ride the tram up there for the first time. The priority at intersections is done very well.
@@philipmallis And on the Glenelg tramline in Adelaide, they stop on request at some stops but not others. Where they stop on request, there are these announcements: To stop at ______ stop __ please request now. The say 'The next stop is...' if it is a standard stop. Perhaps we should do this in Melbourne rather than stopping on request at stops busy enough for requesting them to feel pointless. Request stopping does not need to be done full time. That said, all stops on the Gold Coast and Canberra light rail have quite long stop spacing and their stops all seem to be busy enough to require all trams to stop at all of them.
You're too kind! I've already had my taste of local politics, I was a councillor at Boroondara from 2012 to 2016, which is what got me interested in planning as a career in the first place
It's just so abnormal to get something about Melbourne on any media. I always get the impression that Melbourne has to limit itself in order to make programs acceptable to 'northern audiences'.
Great stuff Philip, its been great to see your videos generating so much interest, especially in some very neiche local topics!
I'm glad you were inspired to do the visuals like this too, it was very good watching. :)
now we need to get Will James to 20K
We need a Philip Mallis x Taitset collab!
Thanks very much, hope you don't mind the borrowing! Keep up the great work, always love watching your videos
Congrats Phil for reaching 20k.Me and my girlfriend are all Chinese immigrants living in Melbourne for 15+ years. I recently recommend your video to my her who is a primary school teacher and she immediately showed you video about the drinking fountains to the kids during lunch break and they loved it ! Plus she is a coffee lover and she is surprised to learn the concept of "coffee palace" ever existed in Melbourne and the large grass gap in M3 freeway supposed to be the Doncaster train line !
I personally really loved your recent "why" series videos cuz as immigrants to Australia/Melbourne we never know this part of the history for the city and always loved to learn more about it. And hopefully we could see more videos from you about the history of why Melbourne is like the Melbourne today.
Thank you very much indeed Philip for the tag. Much appreciated and congrats on the continued growth of your channel. I always look forward to each instalment.
No worries at all, thank you and keep up the great work!
Congratulations on reaching the 20K milestone. A suggestion for a future video: history of Victoria's universities.
Names of the institutions seem to change annually as smaller schools gobbled up... eg MTC-RMIT TC and UC -RMIT U .... Caulfield IT - Chisholm IT - Monash U ... Footscray IT to VU ... Gordon IT to Deakin U.
Massive congrats on getting to 20,000 subscribers Philip! Very well deserved, frankly you deserve twice as many subscribers. And thank you for answering my questions; I really enjoyed your video on Waverley Park. Here's to the next 10k, and hopefully many more!
Thanks Sharath keep up the great work!
Oh cool, thanks for the tag! Congrats on 20k subs, wow :o
Just want to add that the visuals are stunning in this video, loving the drone shots as you talk about the colonial military history
No worries at all and thank you - keep up the great work!
And I can highly recommend a drone if you can get your hands on one. Even an older DJI drone that you can get on sale is a really fun experience.
@@philipmallis I’ve got a DJI Mavic mini, I need to send it skyward more often
Well done! It was only yesterday (More like a few months ago) you reached 10k subscribers, so this is a testament to your commitment and passion to Melbourne’s history
Would love to see a video on Sandown raceway
bike racks on busses are also incredibly helpful when someone cycling has a mechanical issue and needs to get home via PT rather than finishing the journey via bike (or when there's a bus replacement for a train link that you were intending to catch but didn't know until you got to the station...)
Good point, I've been stranded on a rail trail before for this very reason but thankfully wasn't too far from the station...
Congratulations Phillip, I’m delighted to see your fascinating Yan Yean production as favourite. It is mine too. There was something special about that journey of discovery with the present overlaid in history. I’m looking forward to seeing in the near future 30,000 subscribers👏
Congratulations on 20 K , subs, talking off way out planning, I’d like you to investigate a possible bridge from Avalon, to Point Henry to service the Bellarine peninsula! Cheers and enjoyed your thoughts, ❤️🦘🦘🦘🇦🇺
Your drone from McDonnell Park in Fairfield at 12:38 shows the now-demolished old Northcote Aquatic and Recreation Centre!
Congratulations Philip … I see you have far more than 20k subscribers already. Really enjoy your videos! 👌
I can second your comment about most planners being from cities. We're kinda forced to be, as most PIA accredited courses are only at urban universities, only exception would be at UNE and La Trobe. It's partially why I had to move to Sydney from Newcastle for my degree, and tbh, I can't recall anyone else in my degree not from Sydney.
I've also wanted to do a video on regional planning for a while, because I agree it should be talked about. But like you said, it's a very different discipline, and to talk about it competently would require a lot of research.
Loving the local videos! I got into urban planning last year but only saw videos from the US/Canada (Not Just Bikes, RM Transit, About Here) and so it’s great to find local videos. I like watching Building Beautifully and Transport Vlog too, but it’s really led me to watch lots of smaller local TH-camrs: Taitset, Julian O’Shea (mostly Shorts), MetroManMelbourne, Straya Trains, Qazzy, CityMoose, and specifically for housing in Melbourne I watch PurplePingersTV.
Congrats on 20000 Subs.. I've been loving learning about Melbourne. Question you had about Tram Conductors.. I can remember as a child my parents telling how the Tram got held up for ages near the Zoo & no one knew why. So the Tram Conductor held a "Sing a long" on the Tram & kept everyone entertained & happy until the Tram got started again.. ;-)
Congrats on 20K subscribers, and I'm absolutely chuffed that the video I suggested you do (i.e. the Waverley Park one) is one of your two all-time favourites. I feel somehow honoured. By the way, your Yan Yean to Reservoir video is probably my favourite as well. Cheers!
I would absolutely love for you to do a video on Bundoora’s mental health hospital’s Mont Park and Jainefield.
Thanks Philip for providing amazing urban planning content :D
Pretty sure it goes up behind Zone 20 … long ago I got a V-Line service from Batemans Bay, and the little display near the driver said 28 or 29 (I can check my notes if you’re interested). It was part of a trip I did from Sydney to Melbourne via the coast, but I couldn’t QUITE do it with public transport 100%. Not that Victoria didn’t carry MORE than its fair share here, but there was a gap between Nowra and Batemans Bay. I could have used entirely CountryLink and V-Link if I went via Canberra and Bombala, which is the traditional way to the far south coast of NSW (Eden, Bega, etc). But if I did it again I would look into the regional buses, particularly since Opal made buses a lot easier for anything slightly beyond the inner west or Strathfield haha! (Context: Government bus/train tickets pre-Opal only worked for the bus regions that were historically part of the Sydney tram footprint, give or take). The actual limit of the Opal network is actually something of a mystery, even to a big nerd like me that holds the record for the furthest travelled in one day (for free … but let’s be honest, it’s probably a record for paid, too).
Another questions is about what you think of request stopping? What would be your preferred way to implement it and at what places and times should our transit stop on request.
18:34 pretty sure we have 6. you’re right, they are great trams, but my favourite are the E class, my second favourite are the B like you. nice video.
That's so cool that we have the same favourite trams :)
With your point about safety on public transport, I see a lot of online discourse that public transport is unsafe, or have friends that will choose to drive or get an Uber instead of the train/tram because of perceived safety risks
I can’t believe someone knows about the Webb Dock line. Also a bridge over the heads can be quite limiting. We see this with the Westgate bridge and the constraint that it puts on the port of Melbourne. This only became a problem recently as ship sizes increased
Congratulations Philip!!❤
Thank you for your videos! And congrats on reaching the subscribers milestone. I saw you a few days ago at QVM, but was too shy to say hi 😂
Congratulations Philip. Credit where credit is due - don't undermine what you have provided in the four years on this channel. I'm sure that 50K subscribers won't be too far away. Keep it up.
Thanks very much!
15:01 Haha was slightly too taken with looking at Naples traffic and missed part of the re-introduction of staff on PT network :D
Watching traffic in Naples truly is a fascinating experience. One of the good things about the cafe chairs facing the street in southern Europe.
No mention of the rail to airport project ? And congrats on the 20k 👏 which has increased by 4,300 in the last couple of weeks!
Fantastic and interesting channel. One of my favourites.
Congratulations, Phillip Malliis.
Two ideas for future investigation, both airport related. 1. The missing rail link to MEL Airport, particularly as there is a rail spur 5km away at Essendon/Airport West. 2. The projected future airport in the South East of Melbourne (eg Cranbourne/Clyde area)
Thank you, will add to the list!
Love your work mate! Keep it going.
Thanks very much, glad you enjoy them!
Great video, thanks Philip - always interesting to hear your informed and nuanced takes on Melbournian transport planning, and congratulations on nearing 25K subscribers now - much deserved.
Glad your channel is growing and that people are interested, also thanks for your work! :)
Hopefully you will be able to do it full time! :)
Thanks again, glad you're enjoying them!
Interesting that airport rail didn't rate a mention as either an old or future infrastructure project, feels like it's never going to happen
Really enjoying your videos mate, thanks for all that you do. If you are considering making regional Victoria a focus, I'd love to see your take on the decision to remove trams in a historical city such as Ballarat. Maybe a visit for the warmer months, though.
Thanks very much! And good suggestion, maybe I'll do a callout for ideas in rural and regional areas. I have trams in Geelong on my list as well to make a video at some point too.
CONGRATULATIONS PHILIP. kind Regards ! !
Congratulations Philip on reaching 20k subscribers! I enjoy watching your videos as the topic of the content as really interesting.
Thank you very much, glad you're enjoying them!
Melbourn has major most visited public parks and gardens that are not aproachable by publick transport, but always away some 2-4 km of walking, what even has no walking path, often one has to walk allong the road. One ex is Cranbourn Botanical garden. I don’t even dare to think mount Macedon. Wombat Botanical garden out of rich. Taxi? Is anywhere else taxi service so not existing?
Congratulations on your milestone.
Uhm.. we might not *need* tram conductors, but i feel we do need at least one staff member on each team.
For security at a bare minimum. Radio connect to HQ or police at all times. How many times have unrurly passengers gotten away with reckless abandoned, bc the driver can't see or stop or do anything immediately.
Also a member of staff would easily stop fare evasion, that is rampant out there.
23:31 It's interesting because coming from a country like Italy or more specifically a small city I think signs for transport is pretty good here... But I guess it's because in my country of birth it is not that good lol
I MISS Melbourne
You'll have to edit this video as it's now inaccurate. Haha joking ;) 5 hours since posting and you're now up to 24.3k subscribers!
I've been subscribed for a while now as I appreciate your informative and entertaining videos.
Keep up the great work, mate, and well done on reaching this milestone!!!
Question for the next milestone Q&A or otherwise.... Why do we rely so heavily on myki ticket data versus having simple infra red laser scanners to count passenger movement on and off vehicles. Anomolus data can eazily be taken out if some kid runs there hand back and forth over it
Congratulations on reaching 20,000+ subscribers. Speaking as someone from the United States and regarding safety, I took my first trip to Switzerland last year, and I was amazed at the number of women I saw traveling alone at 5:30 in the morning and 23:00 at night. When I lived in Portland, Oregon, you would see a few women traveling alone at those hours, but nowhere close to the numbers I saw in Zurich by a long shot. Right now I think the perception of transit in the US is probably at a low point and a lot of that has to do with the political discourse right now in the US where cites have been declared bad by one end of the political spectrum.
Thank you! I have seen some of the discourse now around the US and public transport and it is quite disheartening. Some places seem to be getting improvements though so hopefully that changes soon.
@@philipmallis Regarding Switzerland, did you know it was quite late to give women the vote?
Very good video, I hope you do more of these Q & A videos
Well done! Congratulations Philip 🎉
No way we have the same fav trams. Mine is also tied C2 ans B2
I screamed “yes” when you said B2
GOAT
Hello from Perth and well done on reaching 20k subscribers - channels about about public infrastructure and facilities are interesting. Also, interesting in this clip at 27:22, where the buses seem to have their own sort of track system - is that in Melbourne?
Buses are in Adelaide
Thanks very much! That footage is from the O-Bahn in Adelaide. It's a fantastic piece of infrastructure that is basically a guided busway from the CBD out into the suburbs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway
Thank you Philip, this is one channel I do look forward to. Although one question that's seem to be missed... Would be what would your vision be for expanding the tram network out into the western suburbs into areas such as point cook, Saint Albans, sunshine, deer Park, Williamstown Beyond Footscray? .... And what would you suggest would be the best model: I radial model from the city centre, a hub and spoke model, etc? And how would one implemented it?
Thanks very much, glad you enjoy them!
On your question about the western suburbs that's an interesting question that would probably need a whole video to cover! Put simply there are definitely opportunities to improve the public transport network around those suburbs. A tram or light rail could be one solution but this is quite infrastructure heavy. You would probably want to first fix the existing bus network to deliver more reliable and frequent services to prove demand before committing to a tram. I wouldn't think that running trams all the way into the CBD would be the best option either - you would probably want to centre any network around the local major activity centres and railway stations like St Albans, Sunshine, etc.
Peter Parker at Melbourneontransit has some great posts on this topic of improving buses in the area which would be a good place to start: melbourneontransit.blogspot.com/2019/08/building-melbournes-useful-network-part.html
As I said there's a lot more to this but hopefully that's a good start!
@@philipmallis It could also help if buses terminating at railway stations are timed to meet the trains.
Can you make a video on bayswater north
Also i like the videos
👏👏👏👏👏
I would rather have conductors rather than inspectors. Either way, you have physical staff on the network except one is there to help qnd the other is there to hand out fines.
After the way the state Premieres acted during covid, and the complete dissection from the federal government, I can very much see the states having their own standing army force.
"what's something that melbourne could learn from transport systems elsewhere in australia?" tressteleg1 says that gold coast trams have priority at intersections. melbourne trams do not.
Yes that is very true! I was extremely impressed when I went to ride the tram up there for the first time. The priority at intersections is done very well.
@@philipmallis And on the Glenelg tramline in Adelaide, they stop on request at some stops but not others. Where they stop on request, there are these announcements: To stop at ______ stop __ please request now.
The say 'The next stop is...' if it is a standard stop.
Perhaps we should do this in Melbourne rather than stopping on request at stops busy enough for requesting them to feel pointless. Request stopping does not need to be done full time.
That said, all stops on the Gold Coast and Canberra light rail have quite long stop spacing and their stops all seem to be busy enough to require all trams to stop at all of them.
wtf is bus way ?
Will you ever go into politics? I'm sure that you will be a awesome Planning Minister
You're too kind! I've already had my taste of local politics, I was a councillor at Boroondara from 2012 to 2016, which is what got me interested in planning as a career in the first place
lol fare system ! The vast majority of Victorians do not pay on trams or buses!
Can't agree on the conductors and technology. They pay pso's to book people instead of having conductors.
It's just so abnormal to get something about Melbourne on any media. I always get the impression that Melbourne has to limit itself in order to make programs acceptable to 'northern audiences'.