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more public transport stuff
Oct. 23rd, 2008 12:11 pmI may finally have found a route to work that doesn't bug the crap out of me. I finally worked out that what was really irritating me was having to get out of the station to catch the tram/bus. Yes, I could catch the train from Flinders St to Prahran, but given that I've missed that train at least twice due to being pushed against the opposite wall by the crowd of evacuating inbound commuters (the Sandringham line is massively overcrowded) I don't actually like that option very much either. The advantage it does have though is that I don't have to find my purse to get my metcard out unless there are inspectors on the train (it's near a Swinburne campus, *sigh*)
So what I've been doing is getting off at West Richmond and catching the bus down Punt Rd. This should probably not work as well as it has been (and I'm quite possibly about to jinx it). But so far I'm finding it takes about the same amount of time as going in to the city and then back out again on the tram/bus. Punt Rd is congested, true, but it's past the main congestion points and the bus never really gets over 40kph anyway, so it moves along nicely with the traffic. Generally speaking it's not too crowded, although I have ended up standing a couple of times.
Homeward bound I'm still going in to Flinders St though - apart from anything else that guarantees me a seat.
Connex is currently claiming that 328 new weekly services are going to magically appear in two weeks. None of them are on my line, or the Sandringham, Williamstown or Alamein lines. Naturally.
So what I've been doing is getting off at West Richmond and catching the bus down Punt Rd. This should probably not work as well as it has been (and I'm quite possibly about to jinx it). But so far I'm finding it takes about the same amount of time as going in to the city and then back out again on the tram/bus. Punt Rd is congested, true, but it's past the main congestion points and the bus never really gets over 40kph anyway, so it moves along nicely with the traffic. Generally speaking it's not too crowded, although I have ended up standing a couple of times.
Homeward bound I'm still going in to Flinders St though - apart from anything else that guarantees me a seat.
Connex is currently claiming that 328 new weekly services are going to magically appear in two weeks. None of them are on my line, or the Sandringham, Williamstown or Alamein lines. Naturally.
