I don't know if this is April Fool's or not, but the headline on my phone reads "Melbourne to scrap trams, to be more like Sydney" by 2013, according to leaked docs from Victorian gov's upper echelons, and that inner Melbourne trams will be replaced by a 'revolutionary street-level conveyor belt' contraption that sounds both enticing and disturbing ( Read more... )

Dodgy machine? Not our problem, shrugs Metlink -- The Age, November 4, 2009. Clay Lucas

A run-in with ticket inspectors that led to a passenger with a paid ticket being fined because a tram’s validation machines didn’t work was "ridiculous", according to a public transport advocate ( Read more... )