The Melbourne Thread.

[little graham]

The tram and train network is reminiscent of the spokes on a bike wheel, with the city at the centre. They're great if you're trying to get to the centre or anywhere along the same spoke, but hopeless if you're trying to get cross town.

There are zero cross town suburban train lines (a couple non-electrified freight ones) and just two tram routes that don't either end in the city or pass through it.

Adelaide's not much different. Trains go North and south. Tram straight down the main street. Bus routes are better, slowly more east west are being added.

 

[Probitas_]

Adelaide's not much different. Trains go North and south. Tram straight down the main street. Bus routes are better, slowly more east west are being added.

Take it to the Adelaide thread, we're trying to discuss a decent city here.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Take it to the Adelaide thread, we're trying to discuss a decent city here.

Is there an Adelaide thread?

 

[little graham]

we're trying to discuss a decent city here.

You Victorians are a riot...

 

[james brayshaw]

I'm not some ridiculous "most liveable city on earth" person... but... PERTH!!??

Come on man.

 

[Rough_Edges]

I love it.

I'll never live anywhere else in Australia.

Great bars, nightlife, restraints and heaps of footy.

Expensive to live in the inner city, though.

 

[walshy93]

 

[Cruyff14]

These are yours?

 

[walshy93]

These are yours?

Yep! I get bored sometimes, this city always has something worth shooting!

 

[Caesar]

Mostly the people.

 

[Ashton Agar]

Amazing pictures of an amazing city. Wallpaper-worthy.

 

[Scotland]

Thread title should be "the melbs thread" in reverence to respected poster silent alarm, vale.

He's not really gone. He's lurking and liking, aren't you Silent Alarm?

 

[Eagle Empire]

I've lived in Melbourne for several years and have found Melburnians to be generally very pleasant, well-spoken people and also skilful drivers of cars. The city is also mostly clean.

 

[Makedonija]

Home of Ali's Kebabs on Donny road

 

[Ice-Wolf]

I know change.org petitions (and online petitions in general) have 2 tenths of flap all chance of actually making a difference but here is one just started to try to ensure the Stony Point Line is fixed and not closed permanently.

https://www.change.org/p/public-tra...-stony-point-railway-line-for-sprinter-trains

 

[radiojake]

John Batman was a massive campaigner who was the first European to make a 'treaty' with a local indigenous group, however he ripped them off like the campaigner he was

He also lived in Tasmania and was a bounty hunter that killed plenty of indigenous people..


It's bad enough there's still a suburb named after him...


*(not sure who Melbourne was, they were probably a royal campaigner too...)

 

[Unstable]

Can we talk about how this property “boom” is destroying the essence of Melbourne?

 

[craigos]

MCG
AAMI Park
Etihad
Rod Laver
Flemington

Palace Theatre
The Forum

Can't afford to buy within 100km's of the above but as a city it's pretty hard to beat.

 

[iDon]

MCG
AAMI Park
Etihad
Rod Laver
Flemington

Palace Theatre
The Forum

Can't afford to buy within 100km's of the above but as a city it's pretty hard to beat.

You could buy next to Sooz, thats 100km or less from the city she'd love the company

 

[Scotland]

John Batman was a massive campaigner who was the first European to make a 'treaty' with a local indigenous group, however he ripped them off like the campaigner he was

He also lived in Tasmania and was a bounty hunter that killed plenty of indigenous people..

It's bad enough there's still a suburb named after him...

*(not sure who Melbourne was, they were probably a royal campaigner too...)

Melbourne was named after the GB Prime Minister of the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne

 

[akkaps]

Would have loved Melbourne to be called Batmania, instead. We'd probably have a Batman ensignia is the sky and all Batman movies would have probably been released here first.

 

[mellowyellow]

what and where is that?

 

[TBellicious]

Laughable that Perth people even dare to compare their 'town' to Melbourne.

 

[craigos]

Went to a Comedy Festival gig last night, vibe in the city for a Tuesday night was great.
Take the beach away from Perth and it's pretty crap, take the beach away from Melbourne and.........just kidding we don't have a beach.

 

[BotsMaster]

Went to a Comedy Festival gig last night, vibe in the city for a Tuesday night was great.
Take the beach away from Perth and it's pretty crap, take the beach away from Melbourne and.........just kidding we don't have a beach.

Someone asked me awhile ago where the best beach is in Melbourne and I, having only been to one spot before, said "Altona"