Why are the walls in Melbourne Central so dirty? Can't they just clean it to look more presentable for people coming in and out? Its been like this for some time. And it's not just this spot. Would have thought it would be a priority as it's a big transport hub.
Posted by Villium02
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Who cares
It’s especially bad when they’ve got the shiny new state library station attached to it.
Requires a fairly significant shutdown to do. Reality is the dirtiness is purely aesthetic and not worth a reduction in services
Pressurised oil leak? Small fire? Possed passenger projectile vomiting the demon right out of them from the platform?
Really could be any number of things. My bet is on, even if they are electric, trains are still big, messy, mechanical things needing lubrication, and sometimes that lube line just couldn’t hold it in no more. (Uneducated guess. I would like to know the truth as much as you honestly)
These markings have been studied and contain the blood sweat and mostly tears of remote workers being forced back into the office post peak covid times. Mixed in with redbull and vape moisture
What is the actual material benefit to cleaning these walls OP? Besides your eyes feeling a lighter.
We can’t afford it … State has a $200B Debt, Feds have $1T. There is no money to spend on Maintenance we spend that money on Servicing the Loans as they are Costing us $M per day…
The thing that amazed me while over in china, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc was how clean the train stations were. I didn’t feel like I’d be infected with tetanus just by looking at the grot coating all over the place. Our train stations just give me the ick now.
Do we even have any attractive stations? The news are fugly, the old ones are shit… don’t we deserve beauty? Most cities have at least some really nice stations!
The only one I can think of that doesn’t hurt my eyeballs is South Yarra station.
I’d imagine it’s a Cap Ex vs Op Ex type problem. It’s pretty grimy down there and is overdue for a clean. The mismatching panels above it gives the overall impression of a replacement by someone who doesn’t care what it looks like. They recently did a lot of work to upgrade the fire systems in the loop, which is much more complicated, I’m sure they could get it sorted if they wanted to
Snap send solve
The cleaning and maintenance budget was moved over for the building of the new stations
Problem is it’s so busy you can’t close it long enough to safely get over there to clean it
The solution, *obviously* is a special train carriage covered in those car wash spinning things and hot soapy water squirters
Everyone on the platform needs to stand back
Get ya scrub brush out then boss
Cleaning companies would sting them a whole lot just for cleaning this
If you look near the rails there’s what appears to be bigass cracks too. That’s a bit concerning
Melbourne smeartral
Wonder how much a pressure washer costs to hire from bunnings
*edit – /s*
you;’d need a pretty long shutdown window to do the cleaning, i’m surprised they don’t have specialised cleaning facilities – if they don’t it will need to be done manually. I work in road tunnel industry, and quite often they do wall washing during all-night closures from say 21:00 to 5:00. given the metro runs 24/7 on weekends and 5:00 to 24:00 weekdays, there isn’t a large window to access. even in that downtime I imagine the means to get people on the tracks would be a massive undertaking.. they really need a maintenace carriage with high pressure washers – if the infrastructure is designed to survive high pressure water…
#Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t care about a bit of grease or soot on a train tunnel. They’re big, dirty machinery. I don’t expect the place to be spotless.
Trains need to poop too
So you would have them stop the trains for a day to clean it?? If they did you’d all be angry about that as well
They honestly just need to replace these panels.
With trains on average every 3-5 minutes on some platforms and it being part of a loop with no alternative tracks it kind of makes sense. I’s get my Karcher out if I was allowed… imagine the satisfaction
Do you have ***any*** idea of the paperwork that would take Jim? Let alone the health and safety sign offs we’d have to go through for safe work sign off. We’d have to shut the station for 6 months just to give it a quick bit of Jif and gourney. (≧▽≦)
Melbourne never gets washed, it’s a filthy city
Brake dust. Not nice to breath in either.
I think the issue is that whenever there is heavy rain it leaks through places making them dirty again. Elizabeth st covers a stream and the west end of the station is Elizabeth st. The station is pretty much under the bottom of a water catchment area covering the north east cbd and parts of carlton
The first thing that seems to go when budgets are cut is jobs like cleaning, maintaining and gardening.
It’s actually pretty clean relative to other underground stations.
If it hurts your feelings walk to Flinders Street.
Probably one of those things where government says it’s a council responsibility, council says it’s a metro trains responsibility and metro trains says that’s a government responsibility….and so on
There was another post about this the other day. The answer is they can’t unless they shut down the entire city loop and Metro aren’t willing to do that. Also let’s be honest, if they did clean it, teenagers would throw food at it again as soon as it reopens. This is what I love about Sydney’s train system, everything feels cleaner somehow
Just needs a good clean – that black stuff is carcinogenic
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@flagstaff in case any of you are wondering why these are not getting upgraded anytime soon…
Imagine what they would look like with just a simple pressure washer. Would be an hour job at most and look way better. They just don’t care
What cringes me heaps is when I see people sitting on the floor at the train platform. The floor is absolutely vile and disgusting. They’re carrying all that nasty stuff back into their homes.
It’s looked better
What about what looks like bullet holes on the wall
Slowly turning into Gotham