Author: PTUA
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This government was elected because it promised more
Why change parties? The Premier is desperate to redeem his government’s record on public transport. So desperate that he starts by citing the Regional Rail Link, an initiative of his Labor predecessors. It was a sad disappointment that the Coalition’s only original contribution to this project was an ineffectual review, which upped the budget but…
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Community campaign launched as traffic drives Melbourne to crisis point
Fed up with crippling commute times, residents across Melbourne are voicing their anger at the Napthine Government’s plan to sink up to $14 billon into another traffic-clogged tunnel and toll road instead of better public transport. With one year until Victorians next go to the polls, Melbourne community groups from Kensington to Frankston and from…
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ALP’S “Project 10000”, an important start, but not yet a plan
With their “Project 10000” document, the Victorian Labor Opposition has clearly listened to community demands for better public transport, but it risks everything with its weak position on the East West Link , the Public Transport Users Association said today. PTUA President Dr Tony Morton said Labor’s pledge to remove fifty of the worst level…
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PTUA presents inaugural Paul Mees Award to ‘people power’ transport activists
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has presented the inaugural Paul Mees Award for transport advocacy to Darren Peters and Trevor Carroll of the South Morang and Mernda Rail Alliance. PTUA Tony Morton presented the award to Mr Peters and Mr Carroll at the PTUA’s 2013 Annual General Meeting. “Darren and Trevor are worthy recipients…
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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.