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Full sized image here I made one of these before, ages ago. With construction starting on the Melbourne Metro in earnest, more rail projects being announced, and increasing public interest in expanding Victoria's rail infrastructure, I thought it's time I update my ideas. Also a few people got internet famous recently for making their own fantasy rail maps, and frankly I think mine is better. Firstly, acknowledgements. This map is heavily influenced by Public Transport Victoria's Network Development Plan from 2012, and the Rail Futures Institute's InterCity study from 2016. The orbital line around Melbourne is based in part on Urban Melbourne's "Revisiting a Melbourne Orbital Rail Line" article by Alastair Taylor, which went into quite a bit of detail, though has many differences from the line as shown here. The line to Rye is basically taken from the fantastic proposal at peninsularaillink.net, which seems to have a bit of traction behind it. Ideas were pilfered in bits and pieces from trawling through endless threads on the wonderful railpage.com.au The Melbourne Metro (shown here as T7 from Footscray to South Yarra) and the extension to Mernda (along existing reservations; here shown to the former terminus at Whittlesea) are currently under construction. The Airport, Doncaster, and Rowville lines were first proposed many decades ago and usually considered the most urgent priorities for network expansion. Other lines are extended/electrified to serve new growing suburbs. A restored Bellarine Peninsula line (Geelong-Queenscliff) was proposed by the former Liberal-National Victorian state government, and would serve a fast growing area, while the line to Torquay was proposed by the current Labor state goverment. The South Gippsland Line has been restored, and a new "Regional Rail Link" has been built with trains to Gippsland now running on new tracks from Caulfield to Moorabbin to Dandenong. Conspicuous absences: the rest of the Outer Circle line, between Fairfield and East Camberwell; other demolished lines such as the Inner Circle, Kew, and Red Hill lines. Either these areas are already well-served by trams, or I think rebuilding them takes less priority than the other new lines shown on this map. The Port Melbourne and St Kilda lines I left as light rail. The construction timeline could go something like this: 2020s: Melbourne Metro; extension to Mernda, Wollert, and Clyde; line to the Airport via Sunshine and Albion; restored passenger services to Horsham and Mildura 2030s: Doncaster Rail Project, including tunnel from Clifton Hill to Fitzroy, Parkville, Southern Cross, Fishermans Bend, and Newport; Rowville Rail Project, including tunnel from Ashburton to Oakleigh 2040s: Regional rail projects including Midland rail (Geelong-Ballarat-Bendigo) and new lines to Bendigo/Seymour via Melbourne Airport, Extension to Avalon Airport 2050s: New Airport Line tunneling under Maribyrnong and extensions to Knox 2060s: Metropolitan orbital line Yes, this is all hugely expensive and speculative. But to cope with the challenges of the next half century, Melbourne and Victoria needs a daring, ambitious, integrated transport plan, and a robust and efficient train network. There's no harm in dreaming big, and perhaps, if enough of us do, then some of it might become reality.
I recently attended a brony meetup, first one in a very long time. Okay, so most of my friends that I see regularly are bronies, or ex-bronies, but I'm talking a meetup where everyone there is a brony and for the most part don't know each other super well. Strangers coming together for the love of a cartoon and the community that grew around it. It was a bit sad, actually. There used to be semi-regular meetups with upwards of 50 people and there were about 20-25 people at this one. But they hired out a hall, and decorated it with pony stuff, and people were there genuinely out of love for the show and the fandom. I drew something like this years ago when I first encountered the bronies. I drew it again, as a kind of restarting point for myself, a rebirth of sorts for my love of ponies and bronies. Nostalgia is dangerous; things can never be the same as they once were, nor will things last forever. But I can enjoy the cartoon, still a ripper of a show even after seven seasons, I can enjoy the tons of fanworks that are still being made, I can enjoy the enthusiasm of people in the fandom. And I choose this as the first artwork for this restarted blog. I actually had this blog for ages, right at the beginning of my involvement with the brony fandom in fact. I keep changing my mind as to what I want to do with it. I put a whole bunch of political writings here at one point, before I changed my mind. I’ve decided this is going to be my art blog. I’ve pondered things for a while to make sure that I’ve totally convinced myself of my plans for my tumblr, ‘cause I don’t want to start posting and then abandoned it as I have done in the past. I don’t think I’m ready, but the curse of the perfectionist is that he is never ready. So, with this picture, I’m taking the plunge. Casting my die. Crossing the Rubicon. Whatever. Let’s start this shit up.