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  • Transport Statement Botched by Batchelor

    The Public Transport Users Association has condemned the Transport and Liveability Statement “Meeting Our Transport Challenges” and has demanded the immediate resignation of Transport Minister Peter Batchelor, citing no confidence in his ability to deliver overdue public transport improvements and crucial management reforms to ensure timely and efficient delivery of services.

  • Statement Condemns Geelong to Transport Failure

    The Public Transport Users Association today condemned the State Government’s Transport and Liveability Statement and demanded that the Transport Minister resign, citing no confidence in his ability to deliver overdue public transport upgrades. Geelong Branch Convenor Tim Petersen said the release of the long-awaited statement showed that the Government had no plans to roll out…

  • Transport and Liveability Statement: Pre-release audio

    These audio grabs are for radio news programmes, for the morning of Wednesday 17th May 2006, providing comment before the release of the Transport and Liveability Statement later today.

  • Transport Statement Must Go Beyond Promises

    The government’s Transport and Liveability Statement, due next week, will be “just another dead duck” unless it includes a plan for structural reform, including an efficient public agency to manage public transport, the Public Transport Users Association said today.

  • Call to scrap opposition’s car dependent transport policies

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has challenged the Victorian Liberal Party to develop new transport policies to ensure sustainable relief against mounting petrol prices.

  • Expensive third track costs Hurstbridge line

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has slammed plans by the State Government to spend over $1 billion building a third track on the Dandenong train line – which will be at the expense of projects such as the Hurstbridge line upgrades, benefiting the entire north-eastern suburbs, and other projects in the upcoming “Transport and…

  • Statement set to disappoint

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) warns Manningham residents not to get their hopes up in the eagerly-anticipated ‘Transport and Liveability’ statement to be released in coming weeks. Given the State Government has been tight-lipped on revealing its intentions for Manningham: tram 48 along Doncaster Road from North Balwyn, heavy rail along the Eastern Freeway…

  • Expensive third track costs Altona duplication

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has slammed plans by the State Government to spend over $1 billion building a third track on the Dandenong train line — which will be at the expense of projects such as the Altona loop duplication, benefiting the entire Western suburbs, and other projects in the upcoming “Transport and…

  • Train users hail free travel

    Train users have hailed the start of free travel on metropolitan services and Geelong buses included in V/Line fares to Melbourne.

  • Where’s the Doubling in Service?

    WHERE’S THE DOUBLING IN SERVICE? User group demands public control of public transport The Public Transport Users Association has called for an efficient public agency to assume control of services and immediately double service levels, following the results of an analysis of privatisation by researchers at four Melbourne universities. “The Auditor-General found last year that…

  • It’s official: Traffic congestion caused by lack of public transport

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has warned the Bracks government to heed the findings of a new draft report on congestion that recognises a lack of alternatives to driving is a major contributor to traffic congestion.

  • Successful Games public transport demonstrates it can be done

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has given a thumbs-up to public transport throughout the Commonwealth Games period, saying it showed the way forward for boosting patronage all year round.