Re: Buses (Victoria)

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

I teach at a school in NB territory.  I would love to use victrip and links
as a teaching exercise but:
* victrip is very slow to load.
* victrip has very little information (only links).
* victrip assumes that you know where and when you want to go.  No route
maps.  The best it can offer is 'name a shopping centre'.  There are more
reasons than this for travelling.
* NB, our operator, has no information.

In theory, a web page is an excellent way to provide public-transport
information; in practice, Melbourne's has got there yet.
-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Michael Walker <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote in article 
>     Getting back to the original thread, when www.buslines.com.au first
> started (buslines is the website for Melbourne's private bus operators -
it
> is worth a look if you haven't already, it contains info on the bus
> companies and all of their suburban bus timetables. The Sydney equivalent
> for private bus companies should take a good look at this site and Sydney
> buses site too, the site the Sydney private bus companies provide is
> pathetic in contrast.), they had a link for a potential NBC site. The
logo
> even had the phrase 'a better way to internet' next to it (a take off on
> their catch-phrase, a better way to go.). I was surprised when it
> disappeared in later revisions of the site as they would have been the
sort
> of candidate the site would be perfect for. Same with Ventura, I cannot
> understand why they haven't shown any interest either. Grendas on the
other
> hand have an excellent site for their various constituent companies.
>     I cannot understand why more of Melbourne's bus companies don't take
> advantage of the opportunity to advertise their services on the net. The
> www.buslines.com.au site even has a link from Victrip for the various
> companies and Victrip is relatively well advertised at stations and the
like
> too.