大自然给人类提供了空气和水，大家在不间断地吸饮着 它们；科技革命给我们带来链接，蓦然回首，发现资讯原来也是日常消费品。墨尔本很快就可以通过链接Google来查阅即时交通信息。下面是转自澳洲主流媒体【时代报】的一则消息：

Melbourne is perhaps days away from being able to use Google Maps to plan a public transport journey across the city - something that can already be done in every other capital in the country - after the Andrews government released key timetable data on Monday.

The release, in the GTFS format Google uses to provide information on how to use public transport to get around scores of cities around the world, will bring Victoria in line with the rest of Australia, several years after other states released the data to app developers.

It means a person plotting a journey from one part of the city to the other on Google Maps will find options for public transport where the choice is currently limited to driving, cycling or walking. The absence of timetable data in a format Google can use has long frustrated public transport and tourism advocates.

The data release was long overdue, Public Transport Users Association spokesman Daniel Bowen said.

"The public fund the entire network and we should have access to this information so that Google and others can use it to make life easier for passengers," he said.

It will now be up to Google to use the data release to include Melbourne's timetable and route information in Google Transit.