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  • The real “balance” between freeways and public transport

    When faced with accusations that it is spending too much on roads and not enough on public transport, it is common for the government to play the “balance” card. They argue that we need both; that there has to be a balance of spending. It’s only when you look closer at where the new money…

  • Bus Network Needs Radical Overhaul

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) is demanding that the State Government overhaul Melbourne’s bus network as part of its upcoming Transport and Liveability Statement and through the renewal bus contracts in 2007.

  • Campbellfield a Transport ‘Black Hole’

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has called on the government to fix a public transport ‘black hole’ by including Campbellfield Station in its Transport and Liveability blueprint for Melbourne, to be released later this year.

  • Apple Orchards, or 21st Century?

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has demanded an end to excuses, and immediate funding to bus route 307 from Mitcham to the City via Doncaster, to provide an adequate, usable bus network fitting in with 21st-century lifestyles, not those of the 1950s.

  • Southland Station “Obvious”

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has called on the government to include Southland Station in its Transport and Liveability blueprint for Melbourne, to be released later this year.

  • Statement must deliver on promises

    Following the announcement of the State Government’s ‘Transport and Liveability Statement’, the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has called for a specific focus on Doncaster.

  • Congestion submission

    The PTUA has put in a submission to the Victorian Competition & Efficiency Commission’s inquiry into managing transport congestion. The submission is now available on the VCEC web site.

  • Archived newsletters (2001 to 2005)

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  • Archived media releases 1998-2005

    The following media releases from 1998 to 2005 have been archived.

  • Back to the ’60s

    WITH talk of another road bridge across the Yarra, it becomes clear that our planners, State Government and Opposition still have their transport thinking stuck in the 1960s. How many times does it have to be spelt out: Building another road just results in more traffic. It’s been the case with every freeway so far,…

  • Tram priority: we’re on the same track

    IT’S certainly true that the Public Transport Users Association has not always seen eye to eye with outgoing Yarra Trams boss Hubert Guyot on every issue (The Age, 6/9). But we agree on a number of topics – none more so than the need for tram priority on our roads.

  • NYE Transport Totally Inadequate

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has hit out at what it describes as totally inadequate plans for New Year’s Eve public transport services. “We would love to tell people they can rely on public transport to get them home after the fireworks”, said PTUA president Daniel Bowen. “But we know from past years many…