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  • Tram-like buses to solve transport woes

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) is calling on Geelong councillors to support a bid to the State Government for “tram-like” bus routes in Geelong. The Association has been meeting with councillors to seek support for three high-quality bus routes along Geelong’s major roads, as the first priority for upgrading the whole system.

  • Federal road funding blows Geelong’s greenhouse budget

    Geelong’s transport greenhouse gas emissions will rise even faster under proposals from both major parties to upgrade major roads instead of improving public transport, the Public Transport Users Association has warned. Geelong Branch Convener Paul Westcott said both parties also risked making the region more vulnerable to high petrol prices by increasing dependence on cars,…

  • 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.

  • Geelong bus crisis ignored in budget

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) today called the State Budget a `grave disappointment’ for Geelong, with no new measures to halt the drop in patronage on Geelong’s urban buses.

  • Libs South Barwon loss highlights lack of transport vision

    The Liberals’ failure to win South Barwon highlights the party’s lack of a broad vision for public transport throughout the electorate, the Public Transport Users Association said today.

  • Major parties get poor marks for public transport — Geelong branch

    Users release Geelong election policy scorecard The two major political parties have scored poorly on election campaign commitments for Geelong’s public transport, in an analysis by the Public Transport Users Association’s Geelong Branch. The election policy scorecard gives both Labor and Liberal a “D”, and indicates that only the Greens have tackled the issue of…

  • Poor cousins no more: Call to bring our buses up to outer Melbourne standards

    Public transport users have challenged the major parties to bring three key Geelong bus routes up to standards set in Melbourne’s outer suburbs.

  • Sleepy hollow — Daylight Saving overtakes Geelong buses

    After tomorrow, the last bus on six of Geelong’s bus routes will leave the city centre before sunset on six days a week. Spokesman for the Public Transport Users Association’s Geelong branch, Tim Petersen, said these six bus routes will join five others that the sun has already overtaken.

  • Geelong signs up for better public transport

    More than a thousand Geelong residents and visitors have signed a petition demanding better public transport services in the Geelong region.

  • New Geelong region bus services

    Public Transport Users Association Geelong Branch secretary Paul Westcott has welcomed the increase in bus services to Torquay and the Bellarine Peninsula, and the move to a consistent pattern of more-or-less hourly services.

  • Buses or Bust

    Users Launch Petition for Frequent Bus Services The Geelong Branch of the PTUA today launched a petition calling on the major political parties to bring the region’s bus services up to useable standards, within a year from November’s State Election. The petition calls for more frequent services running later into the evening as the key…

  • Train timetable on the right track

    Users call for further changes and trains every half-hour The Public Transport Users Association’s Geelong Branch has welcomed V/Line’s new Geelong line timetable as an “important step in the right direction.”