Thanks to vigorous advocacy by the community, Bicycle Network, and bicycle user groups, the Victorian State Government has dropped their proposal to ban all e-bikes from public transport. Instead, only modified e-bikes will be banned. Great work everyone! this is a common sense outcome that addresses the real-but-small risk of fires, while not removing a really important part of our transport mix.
#cycling #melbourne #SpringSt

https://transport.vic.gov.au/plan-a-journey/public-transport-tools-and-resources/travel-tips-and-resources/bringing-items-on-public-transport/bicycles-and-public-transport#h2-uj7u9

Thanks to vigorous advocacy by the community, Bicycle Network, and bicycle user groups, the Victorian State Government has dropped their proposal to ban all e-bikes from public transport. Instead, only modified e-bikes will be banned. Great work everyone! this is a common sense outcome that addresses the real-but-small risk of fires, while not removing a really important part of our transport mix.
#cycling #melbourne #SpringSt

https://transport.vic.gov.au/plan-a-journey/public-transport-tools-and-resources/travel-tips-and-resources/bringing-items-on-public-transport/bicycles-and-public-transport#h2-uj7u9

Transport Victoria are expanding tram stops on the 57 tram line along Victoria St, Errol St and Queensberry St in North Melbourne and as a big fuck you to the disability community they're not making them accessible.

They're making the tram stops wider and adding zebra crossings but for some reason they can't be fucked rising the stop to the level of the tram to provide level boarding.

This is fucking outrageous.

Transport Victoria needed to make all tram stops accessible by 2022 and they failed to do that. The next deadline is only a few years away and they're planning to rebuild trams stops without making them accessible.

If you're in Melbourne please submit feedback on this consultation and tell them you support accessible tram stops.

https://engage.vic.gov.au/route-57-north-melbourne-tram-corridor

You can also email Sonya Kilkenny the Minister for Planning and tell them you support accessible tram stops.

reception.kilkenny@transport.vic.gov.au

They are also doing in person consultations on Saturday and Tuesday if you want to yell at them in person.

https://engage.vic.gov.au/project/route-57-north-melbourne-tram-corridor/meetings

#Melbourne #PublicTransport #SpringSt #Accessibility #AccesibleTramStops

I don’t much like the state Labor government (too many careerist party hacks), but the people would need to be convinced the opposition LNP is a safe pair of hands before they vote for it; and let's face it, the LNP is a rabble. Vote Greens, IMO.

#VicPol #SpringSt https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-30/labor-liberal-victorian-state-election/106074182

Transport Victoria are expanding tram stops on the 57 tram line along Victoria St, Errol St and Queensberry St in North Melbourne and as a big fuck you to the disability community they're not making them accessible.

They're making the tram stops wider and adding zebra crossings but for some reason they can't be fucked rising the stop to the level of the tram to provide level boarding.

This is fucking outrageous.

Transport Victoria needed to make all tram stops accessible by 2022 and they failed to do that. The next deadline is only a few years away and they're planning to rebuild trams stops without making them accessible.

If you're in Melbourne please submit feedback on this consultation and tell them you support accessible tram stops.

https://engage.vic.gov.au/route-57-north-melbourne-tram-corridor

You can also email Sonya Kilkenny the Minister for Planning and tell them you support accessible tram stops.

reception.kilkenny@transport.vic.gov.au

They are also doing in person consultations on Saturday and Tuesday if you want to yell at them in person.

https://engage.vic.gov.au/project/route-57-north-melbourne-tram-corridor/meetings

#Melbourne #PublicTransport #SpringSt #Accessibility #AccesibleTramStops

I don’t much like the state Labor government (too many careerist party hacks), but the people would need to be convinced the opposition LNP is a safe pair of hands before they vote for it; and let's face it, the LNP is a rabble. Vote Greens, IMO.

#VicPol #SpringSt https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-30/labor-liberal-victorian-state-election/106074182

WTF? Victoria police has made the entire Melbourne CBD a 'designated area' until June 2026.

For the next 6 months anyone in the CBD can be randomly stopped and searched without cause on the pretense of a search for weapons.

This is quite an escalation in the abuse of this police power.

https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-cbd-sunday-30-november-2025-friday-29-may-2026

#VicPol #SpringSt #Melboure

Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece said the council supported the move. "This is very much welcomed by us. We have seen a 20 per cent increase in crime in the central city over the last 12 months. That is a fact,"

A 20% increase in crime sounds like a lot and seems like a wildly different world, but when you say it's just back to the same levels as 2018 it doesn't sounds like much at all.

We didn't need to level of police overreach to respond to crime in 2018, so why do we need it now?

#Melbourne #VicPol #SpringSt

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/police-extend-search-powers-melbourne/106053990

WTF? Victoria police has made the entire Melbourne CBD a 'designated area' until June 2026.

For the next 6 months anyone in the CBD can be randomly stopped and searched without cause on the pretense of a search for weapons.

This is quite an escalation in the abuse of this police power.

https://www.police.vic.gov.au/public-notice-melbourne-cbd-sunday-30-november-2025-friday-29-may-2026

#VicPol #SpringSt #Melboure

UPDATE: This morning's AM headline is about something other than the Federal LNP. Something's happened to Jacinta Allan??

#springst

I love how every Melbourne Crime Crisis™ article quotes absolute figures, from some 3rd party think tank, when referencing the claim out an out-of-control crime increase, rather than proportional figures, as crime has always been reported.

As can be seen, NSW vs VIC victimisation rates are fairly steady, and fairly comparable. No sign of a crisis, at all.

Top is NSW, bottom is VIC.

#auspol #SpringSt

"A majority of Victorian renters have experienced a "significant tenancy issue", yet only half of them made a complaint due to fears of landlord retaliation...only 52 per cent of the affected households lodged a complaint, and even fewer — just 2 per cent — escalated their complaint to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)."

Housing crisis means that you keep quite and hope your landlord doesn't raise your rent above what you can pay because if they do you probably can't find another place to live.

Tenants rights aren't useful if people are too afraid to stand up for them.

#SpringSt

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/victorian-renter-confidence-index-survey-launched/105918696

"A majority of Victorian renters have experienced a "significant tenancy issue", yet only half of them made a complaint due to fears of landlord retaliation...only 52 per cent of the affected households lodged a complaint, and even fewer — just 2 per cent — escalated their complaint to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)."

Housing crisis means that you keep quite and hope your landlord doesn't raise your rent above what you can pay because if they do you probably can't find another place to live.

Tenants rights aren't useful if people are too afraid to stand up for them.

#SpringSt

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/victorian-renter-confidence-index-survey-launched/105918696

Every so often there's some good news in the media. This treaty between Victoria and its First Nations peoples is a welcome step forwards. #VicPol#SpringSt#FirstNationshttps://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115171173588892770

Every so often there's some good news in the media. This treaty between Victoria and its First Nations peoples is a welcome step forwards. #VicPol#SpringSt#FirstNationshttps://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/115171173588892770

Why am I so against "community housing? Why do I think public housing is the only way?

This. This is why:

Melbourne 'affordable' housing tenants face 17 per cent rent increase

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/ground-lease-affordable-housing-model-flawed-tenants-say/105730686

#auspol #springst

Brad Battin is out there finally condemning the Nazi rally on Sunday, while Moira Deeming is in parliament spewing Nazi lines.

What's he going to say when she's front and centre of the march?

Maybe Pesutto will have grounds for appeal of the defamation case he lost

#SpringSt

Victorian Young Liberals - for white people dressed like real estate agents everywhere.

#auspol #springst

Victorian Young Liberals - for white people dressed like real estate agents everywhere.

#auspol #springst