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Declan Martin

@declanmartin.bsky.social
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(As seen on Tw*tt3r.) Urban Planning & Public Transport policy - 2018 ALP Brighton Candidate @ Vic election. Urban/transport planner, politics observer and all round general poster. Keen on Football/Soccer too

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 03/01/2026
me thinking about global heating accelerating faster than most predictions, as a dying economic system murders its way into oblivion and builds warehouses dedicated to increasing emissions
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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
thanks
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
You know who else is a petty tyrant who doesn't exactly love elections? Lukashenko. Guess its only a matter of time before Trump launches a special military operation in Belarus... Right? Right??? Why one but not another?
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
NO MORE WARS!!! TOO MUCH WINNING!!! THE PRO PEACE TICKET!!!
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One livery for Intercity, London commuter, suburban and regional? How daft.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A great day for Melbourne with the opening of the Metro Tunnel. Been a long wait but the benefits over the coming decades will be amazing 🚇🎉
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Look at him go 🥹
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Railmaps @railmaps.com.au · 13/10/2025
Today's historic pic: Melbourne W5 class tram no 759 on a non-passenger-carrying run in Spencer Street, Melbourne, August 31, 1983. This section of Spencer Street north of Lonsdale Street carried no regular passenger routes at that time. Tram 759 was converted to an SW5 in 1985.
A Melbourne W5 class dropcentre tram in green and cream livery with three open doors in the centre section enclosed only by canvas blinds, heads away from us along a city street.  The rear destination is displaying SPECIAL and a yellow supplementary board with the lettering  NOT CARRYING PASSENGERS is hanging from the rear driver's cab.  A large brick industrial building of brutalist design looms over the scene in the background with large lettering on it displaying THE AGE.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Your dad when he takes photos on holiday:
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2025
Wow check out this real picture of Sydney harbour that UTS used on their website trying to attract international students web.archive.org/web/20250616...
an utterly fucked generative AI image of sydney harbour, with the opera house on an entire island, lots of random boats and an unconcinving sunset in the background
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Decent place to wake up.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
BART BAG SPOTTED in Tokyo!!!!
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Accidentally ordered a tomato beer last night. I assumed Red Star was a brand name... But nope it was a tomato beer. Won't make that mistake again.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Big fan of whatever's going on here
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"No carparking at stadiums" poster in Kobe. Love it!
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Real ones are Hankyupilled
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Good morning gang
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I've been doing quite a few cross City FKN-NPT trips recently and it really irks me how unreliable the cross city component is. Third time in a week my "Frankston" train from footscray has terminated @ Flinders Street (with zero driver announcement I might add.) Real sloppy from MTM.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Need to spend more time on here given the gradual enshittification of twitter and the increasingly volatile political scene in the United States
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
New apartments by sunset☀️
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
You know Im truly doing my best to avoid consuming and thinking about news coming out the USA at the moment. But the thing is, its not possible. Every corner you turn there's some story or comment on Trump/Musk/Ukraine etc. its unavoidable and I hate it. Our future is uncertain and it freaking sucks
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rust belt city enjoyer @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
not a cell phone in sight, just men living in the moment.
A photo of a blue asbestos shoveling competition. A bunch of shirtless guys are shoveling asbestos into barrels, there is big clouds of it everywhere and no one is wearing any respiratory equipment.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Rest In Piss
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Melton has been transformed by Jesus... Or has Jesus been transformed by Melton? Guess we'll never know.
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Might be time to reconsider the trains we are purchasing from US factories. Thats an easy one to bring back to Canada.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Melbourne Airport. Big airport serving a big city. 1.15am. Still lots of people milling around. Skybus up and running? Nope. You're on your own.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
x.com/declanmartin... Folks we're sorry to announce that tonight's Cairns train trip has been placed on ice for a couple of months, owing to inclement weather. ⛈️🌩️🌪️
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Queensland Rail have been running commuter catch ups this year. Many UK rail operators also have "meet the manager" sessions. Doesn't happen in Melbourne - I think it should though. (If I'm right in saying we used to hold them but not anymore.)
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A look around Central Station in Sydney, which has undergone some serious modernisation in recent years. Its absolutely stunning to put it simply. A really good place to start and end an intercity journey. Well done Sydney.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This freaking rocks actually. Long live the sleeper 👏
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Had the displeasure of missing a 703 bus by mere seconds only to find the next service was over 20 minutes away. There's 4 buses per hour so theoretically should be every 15 minutes... But Ventura's timetable is so damn patchy that there's gaps up to 24 minutes. Really weakens a "premium" service.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can you imagine that Twitter was once a place where millions of famous artists and musicians and athletes (and unfortunately journalists and politicians) and so on would just log onto for free and post every day all day off the dome the thoughts and details of their every day lives?
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 15/01/2025
🛤️ Single track on the rail network is a bottleneck - preventing higher frequency services and causing delays to snowball. More duplication on Metro and on V/Line would help make our train services better. www.youtube.com/watc...
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Melbourne's Last Remaining Single Track Sections
Hello and welcome to my channel. I am a train enthusiast located in Victoria, Australia and just want to share some of my journeys with YouTube. Please feel free to Comment your opinions and Subscribe to my channel :) In this video, we go all over our network in a bid to find any single track secti
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Certified route 64 patriot 🚊
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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
jackie chan was an australian construction worker for like two weeks. of course he acquired a nickname that he’s carried for the rest of his life
Screenshot from Wikipedia entry for Jackie Chan (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan). Text as follows: 

Chan joined his parents in Canberra, Australia in 1971, where he briefly attended Dickson College and worked as a construction worker.[30] A fellow builder named Jack took Chan under his wing, thus earning Chan the nickname of "Little Jack", later shortened to "Jackie", which has stuck with him ever since.[22]
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Let them cook
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Nicky @nickydubois.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
You can tell when it's a non-Melburnian writing The Age live blog because this weather is extremely atypical. This is QLD weather.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Nice to see some local activism in the north around train frequencies, big focus seems to be the large 40 minute gaps on Sunday mornings and half hourly trains after 7pm. Wouldn't take too many extra services to remove 30-40 minute gaps and provide consistent 20 minute services every day.
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emily north @north0fnorth.tgirl.gay · 07/01/2025
“i just asked chatgpt and…” cool i just lost a significant amount of my respect for you
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Saw some coverage on the Federal Govt spending $450,000 over two years on welcome to country ceremonies. So $225k p/a $225,000 divided by 14.5 mil (the total number of Aus labour force) = 0.02 cents. Welcome to Country ceremonies at Federal Government events cost you 0.02 cents per year. Thats it
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
So after the US election, there was a mass exodus from Twitter to here. What do we think will be another catalyst for another big Twitter exodus? Musk has been increasingly volatile over the past fortnight particularly within relation to Euro elections, so surely something will have to give soon
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
People like to talk up big bus reform but sometimes its interesting to see just how little needs to change to make a good bus route a great bus route... For instance a mere four (4) extra interpeak services for the popular 630 would make this a turn up and go bus route!
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
On a pre cricket train that's so busy there's people not fitting on by Glen Huntly... Feel like I haven't been on a service this packed since pre covid era. Ten minute services running too 👀
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
If im working over the holiday period - you bet I'm wearing the Christmas shirt to the office.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Its just amazing how good these folks are at tearing themselves to shreds. Own goal after own goal.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Love Twitter so damn much. Just saw a comment asking why David Limbrick wasn't considered for the Treasurer role 🙂
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Great city when you think about it.
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Declan Martin @declanmartin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Fitting that there's a St Arnaud Road in Eynesbury. They're about as busy as each other!
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Americans who sound like Carabao Cup ties
Lester BoltonChelsea FleetwoodCharlton BradfordBurton Preston
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).
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