A Few Questions for Victoria's MOT

Chris Brownbill <noemail@noemail.co.co> wrote in news:4448b84f$0$10672
$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au:

> BTW there's no such thing as Ministry of Transport in Victoria.

What does that make Peter Bachelor then?


(Apart from useless)

Albert Packard wrote:
> Chris Brownbill wrote>
>
>>BTW there's no such thing as Ministry of Transport in Victoria.
>
>
> What does that make Peter Bachelor then?
>
>
> (Apart from useless)

Good question. The Victorian Government's Department of Infrastructure
"supports four ministers" (oh the significance of that wording).

They are Peter Batchelor, Minister of Transport, John Lenders, Minister
of Major Projects, Marsha Thomson, Minister for Information and
Communication Technology, and Theo Theophanous, Minister for Energy
Industries and Resources.

So there's a Minister of Transport, but no Ministry of Transport.

Paul Westcott

ray wrote:
> Record of Interview:
>
> Q: The top speed of Melbourne's suburban trains is presently 70 k/mh. Do
> you have any plans to raise it to 100 k/mh, and how much would it cost?

Most suburban tracks have a max speed of 80 km/h, Pakenham, Werribee,
Cranbourne, Sydenham have 115 km/h.

Paul Blair <pblair@pcug.org.au> wrote in
news:44494e33$0$20116$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u:

> Paul Westcott wrote:
>> Albert Packard wrote:
>>> Chris Brownbill wrote>
>>>> BTW there's no such thing as Ministry of Transport in Victoria.
>>>
>>>
>>> What does that make Peter Bachelor then?
>>>
>>> (Apart from useless)
>>
>> Good question. The Victorian Government's Department of
>> Infrastructure "supports four ministers" (oh the significance of that
>> wording).
>>
>> They are Peter Batchelor, Minister of Transport, John Lenders,
>> Minister of Major Projects, Marsha Thomson, Minister for Information
>> and Communication Technology, and Theo Theophanous, Minister for
>> Energy Industries and Resources.
>>
>> So there's a Minister of Transport, but no Ministry of Transport.
>>
>> Paul Westcott
>>
>>
>
> To split a hair or two, Batchelor is Minister *for* Transport, not
> Minister *of* Transport. "for" simply says that if you want to ask a
> question about transport, he's the postbox. "of" would mean that he
> carried some responsibility.

So there is a transport ministry, which means there is a ministry of
transport. It's just that the ministry of transport in our case is named
the Department of Infrastructure.

Where's John Coyle to correct us all?

AP

Actually the Siemens are capable of 160 km/h but the V/Line blokes hate
hearing that!

Mark

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:39:23 -0700, markbau wrote:

> Actually the Siemens are capable of 160 km/h but the V/Line blokes hate
> hearing that!

If the maximum service speed in their operational area is 115Km/hr, why
would you provide them with motors and gearing for 160?. Wouldn't be
sensible to change the gearing and lower the power required ?

Or are those things 'so off the shelf' that the only significant
customisation was the decals ?

(Presumably the software in the traction computer has a soft limit of
130 applied to comply with Victorian operational requirements)