Re: Getting to Melbourne Airport (Was: New Ticket available)

["Michael Wierzbinski" <wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au>]

"Ben" <smithb@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> >
> > Touché, however there is a way to get to Melbourne airport using normal
> > public transport if you are willing to try it.
> >
>
> I've done that, its a pig of a place to get get to. This my experience of
> getting to Tulla' on a metcard, sorry if I crap on a tad and get a bit off
> topic.
>
> Once I tried to get there from Moonee Ponds Junction. I checked the online
> timetables before I left home, It said there was a bus to the airport at a
> particular time, continuing to Sunbury. When I got there the bus was
instead
> going to Broadmeadows. The online timetables were obviously out of date,
and
> I wasn't going to sit around all day waiting on the off chance that a bus
to
> the airport would come so I went to Hungry Jacks instead.
>
> The next time I tried I had a free afternoon from Uni. so I decided to try
> again. This time I consulted no timetables and just left it to chance. So
I
> made my way to Spencer St and boarded the next train for Sunbury.
>
>  When I arrived at Sunbury station there was a bus waiting that was going
to
> Moonee Ponds Junction, so I asked the driver if it went through the
airport,
> the driver said yes. So I went to the airport and had a look at the
> renovated Qantas terminal that opened since I was there last. And spent
some
> time on the observation deck watching the Virgin/Impulse gates(prior to
> multi-user terminal).
>
> The only problem was getting back to a place where I could catch a train
to
> the city. According to the timetable on the stop there was a bus going to
> Moonee Ponds so I waited and it never came. I decided to get the next bus
no
> matter whre it went, which would hopefully go to Moonee Ponds or
> Broadmeadows but instead went to Sunbury. I even considered paying $10 or
> whatever to go one-way on skybus to the city. But I persevered and went to
> Sunbury and got the next train to the city.
>
> The whole thing took bloody hours, I think I spent 3 hours (the last 1 hr
> waiting for a bus) at the airport and  1 1/2 hours each way travelling to/
> from the city. The sooner they build the airport line the better.
>
As I said, if you are willing to try it.