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Righto peeps, you’ve all heard of buses replacing trains, but what about… taxis replacing buses?

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PTV usually have a few Maxi Taxi’s on call for complete stuff ups.

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Yeah, I’ve only ended up in one once which was when vline completely screwed up their schedule and the train I was trying to take to Eaglehawk was about 40 minutes late, but they wanted to turn it around at Bendigo to try and get the return service running on time and save at least part of their timetable. The conductor came around and asked who was going to Eaglehawk and then called a taxi for the 8 or so of us that were trying to get there

But this is slightly more interesting because this is a permanent replacement. Evidently they’ve decided it’s cheaper to just call a taxi for the people who want to get there than run a bus service anymore, but I guess for some reason they can’t actually scrap the route

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that’d be a WILD taxi ride. Its a great drive!

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Yeah it would be interesting. Part of me really wants to do it just because of the sheer oddity

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