Sustainable Cities
About Sustainable Cities
The Sustainable Cities Collective is a grassroots movement coordinated by Friends of the Earth Melbourne with support from the Public Transport Users Association. The collective is dedicated to promoting urban sustainability and equitable transportation access. Drawing from a diverse array of community members, activists, and experts, this collective strives to address pressing environmental and social challenges inherent in modern urban landscapes. Emphasizing the need for sustainable transportation solutions, they highlight the detrimental impacts of car-centric infrastructure on public health and urban livability, through community organising to build solutions that are informed by the lived experience of everyday Melburnians.
Better Buses
Better Buses is a sustainable cities campaign, calling on the Victorian state government to transform the bus network in Melbourne’s fast-growing western suburbs to a fast, frequent and connected grid of clean, electric buses running 10-minute frequency all day, every day, and increasing our access to jobs, education, healthcare and to each other!
Sustainable Cities News
- 30th July 2026 We congratulate Ben Carroll and Gabrielle Williams on their appointments to state leadership, as we anticipate a new era of service reform priority.
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The commitment from the Allan Labor government (https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/works-powering-ahead-melton-line-upgrade) for the long-anticipated Melton electrification is welcome, however buses must be in the planning process. Too often buses are left unreformed for years after major infrastructure changes, if at all. A current example is the proposed rerouting of buses 496 and 498 to be […]
- Today the Allan government committed $100m to expand some suburban and regional bus services. Calling it a ‘Bus Bonanza’, the government will extend operating hours and increase frequencies on a few select routes, and add two new routes in Melton South. “We welcome this focus on buses, which are a vital but often-overlooked part of […]
- PM urges Australians to use public transport in the current fuel crisis, but in Melbourne’s West, the broken bus network leaves families with no choice. This evening, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addressed the nation, interrupting television and radio broadcasts to announce measures to tackle the worsening fuel crisis as a result of the war in […]
- 18/3/26 Public Transport advocates from the Better Buses for the West campaign are joining the call from Victorian Farmers Federation and The Greens, urging the government to improve public transport ahead of the worsening fuel crisis.