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Drinks ‘dumped’ FRANKSTON is one of eight councils across Victoria participating in the first stage of the VicHealth Water in Sports grant program to promote “healthy choices” at sports club canteens and kiosks. Council will receive $84,000 in funding over two years to work with Peninsula Health to increase “availability, access and promotion of healthy drinks at council-owned sport and recreation facilities alongside local sporting clubs” (“Sugary drinks ‘out of sight’”, The Times 12/2/18). The Water in Sports initiative was officially launched in Frankston last Tuesday (13 February) at Ballam Park South Pavilion. Council will work from April with sports clubs and centres to downplay the promotion of sugary soft drinks in favour of healthier water.
Water, boy! Long Island Cricket Club members make sure Graham ‘Coxy’ Cox is fully refreshed on a hot day at Ballam Park South Pavilion. Picture: Gary Sissons
Train ‘pain’ on line Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au NEWLY available data proves what long-suffering Frankston line commuters have often suspected — the train line is the most unreliable across the Melbourne metropolitan network. Public Transport Victoria figures released last week under a new online system aimed at greater transparency around train running times.
The statistics showed passengers on the Frankston line copped 862 cancelled train services in the past 12 months or so from 2 January 2017 until 31 January this year. A further 634 trains that ran skipped scheduled stops at stations along the line during the same period. The PTV figures reveal trains on the Frankston line were cancelled more often than on any other metropolitan rail lines.
Despite the frustrations for commuters, 98.4 per cent of train services did arrive and 89.4 per cent were on time although this was below the network average of 91.7 per cent running on time. Metro Trains passengers on the Cranbourne, Lilydale and Pakenham lines also faced above average delays and cancellations. PTV CEO Jeroen Weimar said the new online statistics tool offers greater
transparency about meeting contract targets. Mr Weimar said last month’s statistics showed Metro Trains ran 92.3 per cent of its services on time despite soaring temperatures potentially disrupting the network. “January saw the operators deal with the dual challenges of prolonged periods of hot weather and major upgrade works on our road and rail networks. Despite these challenges, both Yarra Trams and
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Metro managed to deliver service levels above the targets in the new franchise agreements,” he said in a statement. “With detailed planning and close coordination across agencies and operators, we successfully ensured people could still access public transport to get them to their destination during as important upgrade works were carried out across the network, with more than 900,000 trips taken on our replacement buses in January alone.” Continued Page 6
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