Author: PTUA
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East West Link statement a mountain of PR spin
CIS stands for ‘Clouded In Secrecy’, says PTUA The Napthine Government’s Comprehensive Impacts Statement (CIS) on the East West tollroad proposal is ‘Comprehensive In Spin’ (CIS) but crucial facts remain ‘Clouded In Secrecy’ (CIS), the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) said today. “The Napthine Government has just dumped hundreds of pages of modelling and PR…
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Napthine Government plays Victorian public for fools, says PTUA
‘Rash’ $15 billion promise will rip funds from schools, hospitals and vital transport fixes, says user group The Public Transport Users Association today slammed Napthine Government plans to commit more billions of dollars to a further extension of its proposed East West Link road project. “Even the first stage of this road at $8 billion…
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Premier not listening
CityLink was supposed to have solved congestion a decade ago. Before that, the extension of the Eastern Freeway to Donvale was supposed to reduce congestion in the eastern suburbs. We’ve had long enough to pronounce a verdict on the evidence. That new roads increase congestion, rather than relieving it, is contrary to naive intuition but…
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Mandate for Doncaster rail – not the EW motorway
Build it means kill it When the state Coalition promised in 2010 of Doncaster rail that “we’ll study it, then plan it and build it”, it was not clear to the listener that what the Coalition really meant was “we will kill it off forever”. All the more reason why this $8 billion road plan…
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Federal election – Coalition fails on transport policy
Care about public transport? Then make your vote count this Federal Election. We’ve rated the parties on their transport policies. The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has published a score-card for the Federal Election, rating the three biggest parties on their transport policies. PTUA President Tony Morton said that the Greens excelled with an A,…
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Tony Abbott’s transport policy summarised in 30 seconds #AusVotes
Roads, roads and more roads.
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Community Forum: The 2013 Federal Election and Public Transport in Melbourne’s West
The PTUA is hosting a community forum looking at public transport issues in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs. With a federal election imminent, residents are concerned about how transport policy will impact on access to jobs, education and services, as well as local neighbourhood amenity. This community forum is an opportunity to hear from transport planning experts,…
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Signalling could boost rail capacity by 50%
Installation of high capacity signalling across Melbourne’s rail network would improve the capacity of the network by 50%, the Public Transport Users Association says. Speaking at the 5th Annual Victorian Transport Infrastructure Conference, PTUA President Dr Tony Morton outlined how an upgrade to Melbourne’s network would increase the capacity of lines into the city, accommodating…
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Paul Mees
Word has reached us tonight of the passing of Paul Mees, PTUA Secretary from 1987 to 1991, and President from late 1992 to 2001. A big loss. Here’s Paul’s video from the Trains Not Tollroads public meeting last week. And here’s a video from the 1995 launch of the PTUA document Wrong Way, Go Back,…
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Trains not toll roads – public meeting this Thursday 13th June
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE PUBLIC LAUNCH OF THE TRAINS NOT TOLL ROADS CAMPAIGN Thursday 13 June, 6.30pm–8.30pm Fitzroy Town Hall – Main Hall (201 Napier Street, Fitzroy) Special Guest Speaker: Alannah MacTiernan, Former Minister for Planning and Infrastructure in Western Australia Success in the West: How they got the 70-kilometre Mandurah Rail Line from the…