{"id":9260,"date":"2011-06-29T00:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2011-06-29T00:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:47:38","slug":"other-things-wednesdays-2011-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=9260","title":{"rendered":"Other Things Wednesdays &#8211; 2011 June 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalorama,_Victoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kalorama <\/a>to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourneairport.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melbourne Airport<\/a> Travel Options<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There are 4 ways that I can see to get from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/maps?q=Kalorama,+Victoria&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=-37.8177,145.365729&amp;spn=0.008306,0.019205&amp;sll=-33.911635,151.160453&amp;sspn=0.008726,0.019205&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Five Ways in Kalorama<\/a> to the airport when using public transport. They vary from the very quick and expensive to the very slow and cheap and the journey gets cheaper the longer it takes. So the slowest option takes 233% more time, but the most expensive option is 2030% more expensive.The costs are based on 2 x concession and one child of 2 years old who generally gets to travel for free.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><strong>Option<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Cost<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Cost\/Time Raito<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>A Montrose Airport Bus<\/td>\n<td>Bus \u2013 Croydon then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airportbus.com.au\/booking\">bus to Airport<\/a> $60 for the three of you (Teresa is free).<br \/>\n2 x zone 2 concession = 2 x $2.80 to get from Kalorama to Croydon.<br \/>\nNo service on Sunday, limited service on Saturday. 1:45 from Croydon to airport 25 Minutes Kalorama to Croydon..<\/td>\n<td>2 Hours and 10 Minutes\u00a0(144%)<\/td>\n<td>$65.60\u00a0(1171%)<\/td>\n<td>50.46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>B Via Southern Cross<\/td>\n<td>Bus to Croydon, train to Southern Cross and Bus to Airport.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skybus.com.au\/\">Skybus<\/a> Airport bus &#8211; $22 for a family ticket (1 adult and up to 4 children). from Southern Cross<a href=\"https:\/\/store.metlinkmelbourne.com.au\/index.php?type=daily\">Met card Zone 1+2 is 2<\/a> x $5.80 = $11.60 (children under 3 are free).<\/td>\n<td>2 Hours and 30 Minutes\u00a0(166%)<\/td>\n<td>$33.60\u00a0(600%)<\/td>\n<td>22.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>C Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au\/route\/view\/3185http:\/\/www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au\/maps-stations-stops\/metropolitan-buses\/bus\/3185\">Ringwood and the 901 bus<\/a>.<\/td>\n<td>Bus to Croydon &#8211; train to Ringwood then bus to airport.<br \/>\n$5.60 (2 x zone 2 concession = 2 x $2.80)<\/td>\n<td>3 Hours 30 Minutes\u00a0(233%)<\/td>\n<td>$5.60\u00a0(100%)<\/td>\n<td>2.67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>D Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxi.vic.gov.au\/DOI\/Internet\/vehicles.nsf\/AllDocs\/22C47F8AFB4AFE87CA2574C7002215F5?OpenDocument\">Taxi trip<\/a>.<\/td>\n<td>From: 6 Bonza View, Kalorama Vic 3766<br \/>\nTo: Melbourne Airport<br \/>\nis estimated to cost:<br \/>\nThis trip is based on a distance of: 64.13km<br \/>\nThis trip includes the following fee(s): Tollways fee at a cost of $6.52<\/td>\n<td>1 Hour 30 Minutes\u00a0(100%)This is google maps driving estimate.<\/td>\n<td>$129.00\u00a0(2030%)<\/td>\n<td>143.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9450\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KaloramaAirportChart-2011-06-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9450\" title=\"KaloramaAirportChart-2011-06-05\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/KaloramaAirportChart-2011-06-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time Vs Cost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalorama to Melbourne Airport Travel Options There are 4 ways that I can see to get from Five Ways in[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[150,592,1391,1944,2287,3642,3793,3810],"class_list":["post-9260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-airport-bus","tag-bus","tag-five-ways","tag-kalorama","tag-melbourne-airport","tag-taxi","tag-train","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}