Call to integrate popular Metrobuses

SYDNEY'S red Metrobuses have proved a success but experts and the opposition say there are so many of them that standard bus routes should be redesigned to accommodate the new services.

Driven to distraction

THERE are four cars parked outside the Soni household each night €” one for every adult in the Point Cook North home.

Mildurans revolt after 17-year wait for train

BROKEN political promises hurt, but nowhere are they felt quite as they are in Mildura, where Labor promised a decade ago to restore passenger rail services cut by the Kennett government in 1993.

ROAD RAGE

Taxi drivers in Soweto protest against a new bus service they fear will hurt their business. The drivers went on strike and blocked roads after Johannesburg's Bus Rapid Transit introduced feeder buses to ferry commuters from several Soweto suburbs to train stations along main routes. The service is being introduced in preparation for the World Cup, which begins in June.

City queries cost of free tourist bus

MELBOURNE'S free tourist shuttle bus is at risk as city authorities looks at ways to recoup €” or ditch €” some of its $1.4 million-a-year operating costs.

Horses hurt as storm sweeps in

NEWMARKET Handicap fourth-placegetter King Pulse was last night fighting for his life after he took fright during the freak storm to hit Flemington and ran into a fence, receiving multiple injuries.

New routes key to a working harbour for commuters

Manly to Bondi Junction? Extra boats and good bus connections will help integrate the city.

Rotting trams once a symbol of city

MELBOURNE'S W-class trams are being allowed to rot, the boss of the city's tram union says, as part of what he argues is a Government strategy to take all but a handful of the vintage vehicles off the rails.

Shared rides ease commuters€™ bus-strike misery

TRUDGING miserably in the rain, sharing cabs or catching a ride with neighbours, Sydney com-muters complained they had been given too short notice of yesterday€™s bus strike, and blamed the union and the State Government.

Heavy traffic in serious complaints made against bus companies

AN INTELLECTUALLY disabled man whose valid bus ticket was taken from him by a malfunctioning ticket machine had to walk the four-kilometre trip home after he was told by the bus driver to get off.

Worth its weight

The gold rush days are long gone but this cosmopolitan city still has its share of eureka moments, writes Kate Robertson.

More turbulence ahead for Alan Joyce

The general feeling is that the Qantas chief has done a good job in a brutal first year, but he still has a long way to go to stop the tailspin, writes Matt O'Sullivan.

Mayor pleads for better transport

THE Mayor of Warringah, Michael Regan, told residents that traffic congestion is so bad and public transport so infrequent on the northern beaches that workers were forced to wait in their workplace driveways for up to half an hour before they could break into traffic on Warringah Road.

New operator seeks all-night weekend trams

TRAMS could run all night on Fridays and Saturdays, under an option put before the Brumby Government by new tram operator Keolis to cater for the hundreds of thousands of revellers who flock to Melbourne€™s city centre each weekend.

Paralysed in commuter gridlock

Andrew West explores some of the costs of doing nothing with public transport.

Minis back in fashion: private bus plan for city

THEY are the iconic form of transport throughout much of Asia. Jitneys €“ with their colourful decorations and often musical horns €“ wend their way through cities and towns picking up locals who flag them down at roadside stalls and markets.

Anger over bus services on rise

THE number of complaints about Sydney bus services has risen in the past 12 months, taking the gloss off the NSW Government's

Bigger and better

IT WAS a massive year for New Zealand last season - more people skied and snowboarded at the country's resorts than in any other year and snowfall records were set at some fields.