Author: PTUA
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‘Dead Time’ tolls trams
Traffic lights “designed to make trams slow”, study finds Melbourne’s trams are spending up to a third of their travel time needlessly stationary, at a cost of millions of dollars a year, according to research to be presented at a major transport conference today. “We call it ‘dead time’,” said Tony Morton, who carried out…
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New timetables welcomed — Now more trains needed
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has welcomed the announcement of extra train services onto Melbourne’s overcrowded rail network, but warned that this should only be the first step to addressing the problems plaguing the system. “Premier Brumby knows he has to work to solve our transport crisis, and this is a good first step”,…
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Some ’50s service would fix the trains
As the annual patronage on Melbourne’s trains climbs through 180 million, it may only be a year or two before we reach the record of 201 million set in 1951. And yet our Government seems to be approaching this milestone not so much with delight as with fear and trepidation (The Age, 7/9). How can…
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PTUA VP departs
Vice President Alex Makin this week announced his resignation from the PTUA committee. Alex has been on the committee since 2003, and has been Vice President since 2006. The PTUA thanks Alex for his hard work with the organisation, and wishes him the best for the future. And we hope that via his involvement with…
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Bring Back the Buses – Users Call for Buses to Return to the City Centre
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has called for bus stops to return to the city centre, in a submission to a state government review of Geelong’s central bus services.
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Too much empty track
WITH membership reading like a who’s who of Australia’s toll road financing and construction industry, the Transport and Tourism Forum’s focus on trying to build our way out of congestion is unsurprising (“Brumby hits the road on crisis”, August 17). Vague references to “key infrastructure projects, such as the proposed east-west tunnel” is code for…
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Australian public transport users unite in call for federal funds
Joint media release from: Action for Public Transport (NSW), Public Transport Users Association (Vic), People for Public Transport (SA), Sustainable Transport Coalition (WA), Community Action for Sustainable Transport (Qld), ACT Transit Group and Environment Tasmania. Public transport users from around Australia have united to urge federal government funding for public transport, citing major economic, health…
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Solving Melbourne’s transport crisis: Community meeting, Thursday 30th August
When: 5.30pm for 6.00-8.00pm, Thursday 30 August 2007 Where: Swanston Room, Melbourne Town Hall Speakers include: Evidence based transport planning — Dr Paul Mees, Senior lecturer in Transport and Land Use Planning, University of Melbourne and author of Melbourne’s Future Transport Options, (MCC, 2005) Implications of global warming and peak oil for transport — Cr…
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GAMUT conference: Public transport growth in Melbourne, Thursday 23rd August
Public transport growth in Melbourne: Opportunities in the expiry of the Connex and Yarra Trams franchises? When: 10.00 am – 3.30 pm. Thursday 23 August 2007. Where: Auditorium, Bio21 Institute, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville
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We want the bus
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) and Templestowe Road Reference Panel have joined forces to demand a much-needed, new bus service along Templestowe Road linking Heidelberg Station with The Pines. This important Manningham arterial road, the ‘missing link’ in Manningham’s transport network, is one of the few without an adequate public transport service and links…
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Transport the key to emissions reductions
From PTUA News, July 2007 While the Federal Government finally appears to be paying some attention to carbon emissions, planning to phase out incandescent lightbulbs in favour of Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs), there’s no sign of directing funds towards urban public transport projects. This is despite household lighting representing a fraction of the emissions of…