Archived newsletters (2001 to 2005)

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Archived newsletter article lists from 2001 to 2005:

December 2005

• Government forced into action
• Annual General Meeting report
• PTUA launches Five Year Plan (PDF 852Kb)
• Removing tram stops slows down trams!
• Discounted yearly tickets
• Geelong branch
• New Year’s Eve
• Doncaster to (finally) get on track?
• Outer East report
• Suburbs rally to PT in council elections
• Calling all RACV members
• Letter to the editor
• Transport myths: that freeways relieve congestion

September 2005

• Bus reform urgent
• Oil prices keep breaking records
• Annual General Meeting ? 3rd of November
• Tram priority at last?
• Tax reform back on the agenda
• Outer East branch ? now meeting locally
• Geelong news
• Dandenong gets extra trains
• Lack of integration hampering Melbourne 2030
• Road lobby dusts off its wish list
• Another local council considers funding PT
• Petition for level crossing elimination
• Perth extends trains, considers trams
• Common myths about transport: Alternative fuels

July 2005

• State budget drip feeds public transport
• RIP “Think Tram”
• The End of Suburbia
• Warrigal Road SmartBus finally arrives
• Outer East Branch is one year old!
• Transport planning looks ahead, to 1969
• Is a $1b third track to Dandenong really needed?
• Re-privatisation not solving rail chaos
• Greater Dandenong bus continues
• Public transport black spot of the month
• Common myths about public transport: Cars
• Spencer Street: the next phase

April 2005

• And so it begins: Is this the oil crunch?
• It’s time to move in South Morang
• Cheap yearly Metcards
• “The End of Suburbia” — free screening
• Public meeting: Yarra
• Outer east — there’s more to do!
• Tram 48 rolls on to Doncaster: Have your say
• Common myths about public transport: Density
• Geelong report
• Our assessment of Bracks: the government replies
• Going loopy: You can’t get there from here!

February 2005

• Threat to Collins Street tram stops
• Stud Road SmartBus — Labor’s last stand
• Fast rail timetable draft
• Geelong report
• Bendigo line closure
• ALP councillor reneges on Yarra promise
• Tram 48 to Doncaster — it’s not too late
• Successful start to the New Year
• Misinformation rife on the tram network
• PTUA survey results: Frequency is the key
• Are we too harsh on the government?
• The Bracks government’s election promises

December 2004

• Dandenong goes it alone
• Metro transport plan gutted
• Geelong Branch
• Want cheap tickets?
• Fare Changes Sabotage Periodicals
• Summer service reductions again
• Metropolitan Transport Plan: little for the Outer East
• PTUA Outer East Branch
• Victory for transport activists in local elections
• Spencer Street closure – passengers suffer again
• New Year’s Eve chaos fixed
• News in brief
• Trains still a mess
• Craigieburn extension: no stop at Coolaroo
• Tell us what you think

October 2004: Federal election special

• Election editorial: Labor by a nose
• Annual General Meeting report
• Policies compared: Democrats
• Policies compared: Coalition: Roads, roads, roads
• Policies compared: Labor: All talk, few dollars
• Policies compared: Greens

August 2004

• Train woes continue
• Public meetings: Make your voice heard
• Annual General Meeting – 16th of September
• Oil: Why we must do more with less
• More councils supporting better PT
• …but what about Yarra?… Let’s get Yarra moving!
• Ombudsman appointed
• Outer East: Public transport – is it moving you?
• Doncaster rail line
• Federal money for public transport?
• Warrnambool line: damage must be undone
• News in brief
• Increased fines to have little impact

June 2004

• Ombudsman nobbled
• State budget slammed
• Passenger Trains return to Bairnsdale
• Concession card move praised
• Knox rail study
• Will 20/2020 happen?
• Do we really spend more on public transport than on roads?
• Outer East
• Train travellers kept waiting, guessing
• Letter to the editor
• South Morang
• Batchelor on notice: fix the trains
• Learning the hard way?

April 2004

• New contracts raise questions
• New Year’s Eve – All night trains at last
• Vale Rupert Hamer
• Station staff return … sometimes
• Bendigo line fast rail heats up
• Geelong branch update
• VCAT approves tram stop sabotage
• Federal money should fund PT
• Outer east
• Avalon airport
• Sydney Road: remove clearways, fix tram priority
• High density: not the miracle cure for poor patronage
• Victoria Parade solution blocked by Vicroads

February 2004

• New Year’s Eve debacle: How not to move 300,000 people
• Fares up in ticketing overhaul
• Uni Tram Terminus plans stalled (for now)
• Time to end summer timetable confusion
• Geelong line closure
• Show us the plan!
• A fresh perspective on the speeding debate
• Opportunity Knox: The PTUA’s short-term vision for Knox
• News in brief

December 2003

• Melbourne Central – Unlinking Melbourne’s Transport
• Uni terminus design leap in wrong direction
• PTUA plans for 2004
• News in brief
• NYE – Fireworks – followed by sore feet?
• New Trainlink buses on the right track
• Government stalling on BusPlan
• Inspectors code of conduct: More of the same
• Regional rail

October 2003

• Bus Plan on the road to nowhere
• All change at PTUA HQ
• More calls for staff
• AGM Report
• Contract negotiations – why the secrecy?
• Regional fast rail update
• Summer nights are coming – but how to get home?
• Knox council to study train line
• Smartcards offer no security
• Suburban trains – Upfield upgrade as Hitachis dumped
• Geelong update
• The six million dollar trams
• How many seats?
• What you can do for better PT

July 2003

• Unified branding returns
• Tram Plan
• Tram Jam Plan Slammed – Trains the only solution for Doncaster
• Yarra Trams: Be nice to us or we will sue you
• Even the smartest cards won’t stop cheats
• Court vindicates tram passenger
• More frequency quick smart!
• No to tram stop cull
• Regional rail foresight strategy slammed
• Bendigo fast rail uncertainty continues
• Grovedale station – where will it be?
• Geelong fare reform
• It’s still Time To Move

May 2003

• Budget blow-out
• Buses – has the bureaucracy finally got it?
• National PT summit
• State budget: More roads – scraps for PT
• Gap filled by 109 extension
• Yarra trams: BYO seats?
• Country trains return
• Ombudsman Prepares to Open
• Knox: win for PT campaigners
• Govt to Monash people: Get a car
• Support grows for station re-staffing
• Letter to the editor
• State govt misled Feds on freeway plans, says Court
• Time to review oil dependence

March 2003

• Safety means staff
• NX gone: what next?
• Geelong branch
• Swanston Street … walk?
• PTUA calls for better Chadstone transport
• Smart card exhibit ends
• Runaway train
• In depth: safety
• City Circle extended
• Drive-in public transport?
• PTUA in 2003
• Letter to the editor

December 2002

• State election – Freeway building the ultimate vote-loser
• It’s time to move
• Stop press: M>Gone
• Geelong branch news
• Ticketing: technology not the answer
• PTUA general meeting
• Your committee for 2003
• Govt’s Christmas present: Higher fares, slashed services
• Letter to the editor
• Judicial inquiry called for on secret freeway plans

Election 2002

State Election 2002 Comment
Comparison of the Major Parties’ Transport Policies

September 2002

• It’s time to move on ticketing
• Annual General Meeting
• Contracts up for grabs?
• How smart is SmartBus?
• Tram 109 Project
• Sunbury cuts
• First steps on ticketing welcomed – but much more to be done
• Metro Strategy to promise “more of the same”
• Docklands transport plan
• Feeder services the key to increased rail use
• Complaints
• Fares policy meeting
• In brief

June 2002

• State budget unbalanced for transport
• PTUA applauds National Transport Plan
• From the Secretary
• Inspectors and ticketing
• Trams not taxis
• Skybus upgrade
• Forums call for better public transport
• Geelong report
• PTCCC
• Outer East Campaign Revs Up For 2002
• Fares and zones: What’s our policy?
• Contracts vs. Reality: M>Tram (PDF)

April 2002

• $105 million – for what?
• The Met coming back?
• City of Yarra goes green
• From the President – It’s a Team Thing
• Yarra Trams’ Quest for Power
• Fare evasion: “Rights blitz”
• Late night services
• MCG parking ban?
• Sydenham services successful
• Are conductors affordable?
• Geelong branch report
• 20% by 2020: Making it happen
• Rowville bus changes: opportunities missed for real improvement
• Letters to the Editor
• Quotable quotes
• Diary
• Stay up to date by e-mail

February 2002

• A New Year, a New Team
• Traffic chokes City of Yarra
• PTUA Plans for 2002
• Airport rail link scrapped
• Melbourne lags on late night transport
• M>Trams faster
• Meet the 2002 committee
• From Paul Mees
• Suburbs suffer PT shutdown
• Craigieburn services saved
• M> Sunday services under review
• Sydenham trains
• News in brief
• Letter to the Editor
• Contracts vs. Reality: Yarra Trams Franchise Agreements compared to Actual Services (PDF)
• Humour: Who is the PTUA a front for?

December 2001

• Ticketing fiasco rolls on
• Fast train flop?
• PTUA AGM report
• Minister must save Sunday trains
• Eastern-Tullamarine Freeway link: On or off?
• Bourke Street
• PT First and the Federal election
• High Court finds for Transurban
• Geelong news
• Airport rail link in doubt
• New Trams and Superstops
• Scoresby Freeway Challenge
• Disruption handled well

October 2001

• PTUA 25th Anniversary & Annual General Meeting
• Swanston Street
• Public Transport First campaign gears up for federal election
• PTUA reviews PTCCC involvement
• Regional News: Geelong
• Rowville/Monash rail line dropped
• Scoresby Freeway illegal?
• Government knocks back Ventura Sunday service request
• Stop press: City Link appeal dismissed
• Trains: Contracts vs Reality – Bayside Franchise Agreements compared to Actual Services PDF
• Letter to the Editor
• Petitioners seek bus shelter removal
• PTUA to run Bourke Street tram campaign
• PTUA appears before Parliamentary Committee
• Bus strike strands thousands

August 2001

• The Public Transport First campaign in Aston
• PTUA 25th Anniversary
• PTUA slams Bourke St tram removal plan
• Labor MP backs public transport
• Skybus opposes airport rail link
• First Anniversary of the Bus Tour – But still no improvements for Geelong’s buses from the Bracks Government
• PTUA endorses EV rural transport paper
• Fair Fares?
• The flaws of Charters and Committees
• Environment Assessment Review
• A Very Public Solution: still on sale
• Batchelor bypasses on study reference group
• City Link