Melbourne in the 80's as I remember this ad growing up. For me The Met was reliable and it was great to get around and you received customer service. Thanks for sharing.
Luv how the A1 tram is driving synchronised with the M.A.N. bus! Very nice, this ad has a typical 'feel good' aspect to it. The Met workers tried to warn us via 1990 but the public didn't listen (or had no choice) via the impending privatisation.....Mid to late 80's goodness.
Matthew Holyoake how true about the privatization and the corruption and greed of Kennet . That guy has done so much damage to this state. He even closed my school and sold it to his developer friends. Now we're paying taxes to build more schools. People forget what he did with electricity..gas and hes in charge of beyond blue for depression. What a joke. This guy has caused more misery than anyone and really should be in jail. Where's the idiots that voted for him now were paying some of the highest bills in the world. I remember idiots actually thought this turd was great.
Kennett only ever cared about the big end of town.. as all Liberal coalition governments always have done and ALWAYS will do. Kennett didn't give a damn about rural Victorians. He didn't care that he kept the Victorian unemployment rates higher than the national average throughout his entire term as Premier. He didn't care that poorer people suffered with cutbacks. So long as his rich mates, got richer. And I agree, it's a joke that he now pretends to advocate for mental health issues. Considering how much stress and misery he gave to millions of decent, honest, hard working Victorians for YEARS.
@@petergoodwin2465 Bogus, privitisation was coming Liberal or Labor.......it was competition policy given to us by Hawke and Keating that pressured states into selling off assets, especially electricity assets.....to formulate the national grid. My Father worked for the SEC from the early 70's until it was privatised. I can remember him talking about plans by John Cain to sell it off, it was an open secret among people who worked there
@@michaelwilson7924 every one of them is a filthy traitor. Kennett is an asshole who did more damage, none of them were any good. Australia is a shell of itself thanks to them all.
Melbourne and the met in the 80s when I lived there.the best years they were.not anymore.i hate what Melbourne has now become .privatization ruined it all.
Before the privatisation the trains were in a constant stand still with plenty of cancellations and union strikes. The naysayers will always "Blame Kennett" when he had to dig his way out of being the joke of Australia's economy into a thriving business which still includes the Grand Prix.
sonycans Oh please. Kennett was hardly the one who brought the F1's to Melbourne. Ron Walker was the main person behind that. And for all your boasting about Jeff privatising the public transport system and apparently making it better.. what a LOAD OF CRAP! Trains STILL ran late for YEARS, even after they were run by private companies. And how can the public hold the private companies to account, for inferior, late running trains. When they could at least hold the state government to account, before. Meanwhile, 50,000 public servants and 16,000 public transport workers lost their jobs. Then Jeff decided he would amalgamate most schools. Closing hundreds of government schools and a further 7,000 teachers were also thrown in the dole queue. Under Jeff Kennett, the Victorian unemployment rates would always remain higher than the national average. And when Melbourne had its largest protest since the Vietnam war, where 100,000 people decided to march against the high unemployment rates and the constant cutbacks created by the Kennett government. Jeff had the audacity to slag them off. Claiming that there may have been 100K people protesting. But millions of others stayed at home or were at work. Pffttt!! Maybe because they were LUCKY ENOUGH to have a job. Or the rest were out looking for jobs, where there were NONE. Then there were millions of rural Victorians, who were totally ignored and neglected for YEARS by the Kennett government. Plus, who could forget, when Kennett eventually lost the job as premier of Victoria, surprisingly. The guy raced back to his offices and started shredding documents. The dodgy bastard. So, you can try to prop that jerk up on a pedestal. But many decent, honest, hard working Victorians were not so fortunate to gain anything positive under the Kennett regime. The only ones who prospered under the coalition Kennett government, were OF COURSE, big business. As it always does under ANY Liberal government. And it's about time they changed the name of the party. Because they are FAR FROM being "liberal", AT ALL!
@@sonycans pffftt are you serouse or what. Kennet fucked us big time. The state took years to recover from his cuts to schools and hospitals. Till today we still don't have proper infrastructure. Just go back and sit in your Toorak or Hawthorne masion and keep telling yourself how good that arrogant moron was.
While I don't believe in privatization a lot of railways employees didn't work too hard !! One guy used to sleep on the job at a certain eastern suburbs rail station ! You'd have to bang on the grille to wake him up to get a ticket ! Either that or travel without !a ticket ! As no Myki machines back then ! Another guy was an alcoholic and slept in and was always late yet his mates would cover for him !
If you go to the bus station at Box Hill you can actually see the old metropolitan transit logos on the walls at the bus station they have a painted over every thing else but the logos. they have kept for some reason
The met worked bcos it was a government organ, people were trained, paid accordingly, had work progression and an actual career. The Trams , Buses and Trains are now a mad woman’s shit thanks to privatisations. This is about the time when Australia not just Victoria started loosing it soul and more importantly it’s identity as a country.
Well said. Although it wasn’t “lost”, it was deliberately dismantled, and we were fed an artificial identity as a globalist multicultural people who were thrilled with the changes because it comes with exotic restaurants
