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  • 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.

  • Archived media releases 1998-2005

    The following media releases from 1998 to 2005 have been archived.

  • 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…

  • Public Condemn Melbourne Central Exit Closure

    96% of Melbourne Central station users don’t want the popular Swanston Street exit to close, according to a survey published by the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA). The PTUA says that there is overwhelming opposition to Melbourne Central’s plan to close the exit and divert train users through the middle of the centre starting on…

  • Melbourne Central Closure Study Flawed, Say Users

    Melbourne Central have used flawed assumptions to justify closing the busiest exit of the city’s second busiest train station, say the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA). Secret plans revealed earlier this week by the PTUA showed Melbourne Central is about to close the direct escalator link between Swanston Street and the station, instead forcing pedestrians…