UN 237: A new Melbourne PT frequency map

Melbourne's public transport has its share of disruptions, wildly varying service levels and (for buses) limited operating hours and indirect routes. But parts of the network are quite good. Every route is equal - how Transport Victoria mapsAlthough charged with network marketing, DTP through its Transport Victoria brand has a habit of allowing the good parts of the network be lumped with the bad parts. 'Use the journey planner' is their normal refrain, with no thought given to expanding would-be users' ideas of what is possible first. Especially for buses, which have the highest patronage growth potential of the three main modes, fixing these perceptions requires (i) changing reality by chopping out the bad bits through bus network reform and (ii) accentuating the positive through good information and marketing. Auckland has done both. Its bus network is probably now the best of any similar city in Australia/NZ and, with 15 minute 7 day frequencies on its main routes, certainly beats…