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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Blogless</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/blogless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off overseas for two weeks today and probably won&#8217;t have any internet access. But I&#8217;ll be back on the 13th and will be posting on branding, fare structures and goodness knows what else.
cheers,
Phin
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		<title>Some Suggestions for Better Network Maps</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-suggestions-for-better-network-maps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d planned to write a post on Melbourne network maps a couple of weeks ago, but didn&#8217;t quite get around to it. I&#8217;d actually been thinking seriously about the issue for a few months prior, ever since a friend lent me Maxwell J. Roberts&#8217; great book Underground Maps After Beck, which documents the history of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Mees in today&#8217;s Age</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/paul-mees-in-todays-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see that Paul Mees has an anti rail tunnel article in today&#8217;s Sunday Age. It&#8217;s typical Mees fare - he seems to get half way there in his claim that the Loop (defined in a broader sense of the inner city rail system) was built to handle more trains than it gets today, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eddington Strikes Back</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/the-eddington-strikes-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about my blog absence of late - I&#8217;m in the middle of exams at the moment so haven&#8217;t had much time for anything interesting. I saw an article by Melissa Fyfe that appeared in the Sunday Age a couple of days back and it reminded me (as did Tom) that I never finished my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast(er) rail in the North East?</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/faster-rail-in-the-north-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that gauge conversion in the North East is going ahead, I thought it might be good to have a quick look at the prospects for making it faster than the planned 130kph line speed.
As I discussed in the previous post, rebuilding line to RFR standard costs around $1.5m/km. For the 200km North East project, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standard Gauge on the North Eastern Line - is it really going to cost $500m?</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/standard-gauge-on-the-north-eastern-line-is-it-really-going-to-cost-500m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday&#8217;s announcement that the North Eastern broad gauge would be converted to standard gauge between Seymour and Albury was very welcome, if somewhat unsurprising news. The project has a great deal of merit indeed, and it is good to see it finally happening.
However, I was somewhat surprised to see that it&#8217;s going to cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melbourne Tram Network Grand Plan</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/melbourne-tram-network-grand-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 12:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly, apologies for my absence from the blog over the past week -  it&#8217;s getting close to exams and I managed to get several assignments due within a few days of one another. But I did get Adobe Illustrator a couple of days ago and I&#8217;ve been experimenting with it to create a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tipping Points in Public Transport Modal Share?</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/tipping-points-in-public-transport-modal-share/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading through an old post on Peter Parker&#8217;s excellent blog about service frequency and its capacity to change travel behaviour; and it got me thinking about the marginal modal share return to increases in service provision. Here, quality is fairly broadly defined - I&#8217;m basically looking at a combination of frequency, ease of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extending the Epping line to South Morang/Mernda and Aurora</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/extending-the-epping-line-to-south-morangmernda-and-aurora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s face it - last week&#8217;s state budget was bad for public transport. Very little money was spent, and worryingly, some of the money spent was wasted. I&#8217;m talking about the $10 million that&#8217;s been earmarked for &#8216;design and development works&#8217; for the South Morang rail extension. This is an absurd amount of money to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Express running - hero or villain? Part 2</title>
		<link>http://melbpt.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/express-running-hero-or-villain-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 03:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part one, I concluded that the growth in express running has outpaced the growth in trip length, and that this was done more or less to make rail more more competitive with the private car.
Has it been the best way make rail competitive though? The DoI thinks so, and contend that &#8220;express trains are [...]]]></description>
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