The public transport issue has gotten completely out of hand for the Victorian Labor Government, and to Joe Public, Lynne Kosky is surely the deadest of mortal mallards.

Don't tell The Age though. It still blames Jeff. In it's front page story yesterday on the train chaos (not available online, although there's a flavour of it here) the paper reports:

Ms Kosky admitted the rail system was not coping with the heat.

"The extreme heat is having and impact on our tracks and trains," she said, pointing out that the circumstances were extraordinary.

''This is the hottest heatwave Melbourne has experienced in 100 years,"said Ms Kosky, who on Tuesday said "decades" of underinvestment in Melbourne's rail system had left it vulnerable to failure. She has been responsible for Melbourne's public transport system since December 2006.

There's more outs there for Kosky than the bottom of a Bangladeshi batting order. The claim about a one-in-100-year heatwave is simply preposterous, particularly given that when she made it, Melbourne had experienced a "heat wave" of 25C, 34C and 43C when Kosky uttered it.

Then there's Kosky's self serving line about decades of under investment, and The Age's helpful reminder that when it comes to trams and trains, she's a mere Janet-come-lately.

Compare and contrast this to the treatment of the Opposition:

Ted Baillieu - whose Liberal Party has yet to release any policies on how it would fix Melbourne's public transport problems - said the Brumby Government had failed to spend money on the rail system. "There has been a failure to invest, and there has been a failure to focus on the needs of those who use the transport system," he said.

Mr Baillieu would not answer questions about whether the previous Kennett Government had been instrumental in downgrading the transport system. Instead he turned to blame back on to Premier John Brumby.

How unreasonable of Ted. Can someone please remind The Age that this Government has been in power for nine-and-a-half years?

UPDATE 9.14pm Try and blame Jeff for this. What a mess.