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Speeding Vehicles in Melbourne in the year of 1875
" ..police regulation forbids these.... a regulation, as might be expected, not infrequently disregarded. We were told, however, in all gravity by a citizen of Melbourne, that when the municipal treasury happens to be low, policemen are stationed at the crossings until a sufficient number of offenders have been caught, carried off to the police office, and fined to bring the funds up to the required level. "   Melbourne 1875  Note this article refers to a Horse driven carriage
Source:  What we saw in Australia. 1875  by Rosamond and Florence Davenport Hill

Hoons in Brisbane in the year of 1876
" .... the larrikin horsemen who gallop wildly round corners of streets and across the main thoroughfares, utterly reckless of who or what may be passing.  "
Source:  The Brisbane Courier   Thursday 30 November 1876

Careless Driving 1876
" Another class of men whose carelessness is crime are the drivers of heavy vehicles - draymen, cabmen, and omnibusmen included - who monopolise the entire road, pull across to the wrong side without warning, and enjoy the confusion, and oftentimes collisions, which naturally ensue to people coming behind.
Source:  The Brisbane Courier   Thursday 30 November 1876

Speeding Taxi cabs in Sydney in the year of 1878
" Australian cabmen drive at a rattling pace, oftener over than under the regulation, six miles an hour."
Note this article refers to a hansom cab in 1878
Source:  Our Australian Cousins by James Inglis:     MacMillan and Co.London 1880


Flinders Sreet Railway Station circa 1927 Melbourne Australia

Crowded Trains. 1881.
Sir,-About the traffic management of the Victorian railways, I recently heard a shrewd practical man of business, well known in Melbourne, remark-
"They have not the experience out here ; what they want is to import a man from Clapham, or Waterloo, where there is a perfect network of rails, and where trains are in and out unceasingly. Such a man they could easily get for seven or eight hundred a-year, and perhaps less.. He would very soon find out what's the matter."
Is not that the real remedy for unpunctual starting, overcrowded, slow trains, arriving just too late to be in time to continue one's journey by another train, and for all the anathematising which follows the vexation which has become too common of late?
I think so -
July15.
-Yours, &c,
HURRY UP.
Source:  The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Monday 18 July 1881

Crowded Trains. 2009.   
We should just get used to crowded trains.
Department of Transport chief Jim Betts said Melbourne was becoming more like London, Paris and Tokyo, where overcrowding was a fact of life. "I'm not saying that's a good thing. I'm not celebrating it. But welcome to the Western world," he said. "This is what happens when you have a city of four million people."
Source:  Herald Sun Newspaper (Melbourne, Vic.)   May 19, 2009

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 How to use this Calculator
Fill tank until it is completely full.
Set your trip odometer counter to zero or note the odometer reading.
The next time you fill up until the tank is completely full.
Make a note of how many litres needed to fill the tank.
Make a note of the odometer trip reading.
Enter these last two values into the calculator.


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