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Category: Melbourne east

  • Manningham: Time for late night services

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has demanded that bus services in Manningham be significantly increased and extended on Friday and Saturday evenings in line with improvements for Melbourne’s tram and train network.

  • NEITS a sham: Where’s the projects?

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has condemned the lack of credible projects presented in the North East Integrated Transport Study (NEITS) and dismissed the study as inadequate for Melbourne’s growing north-east.

  • Free screening of The End Of Suburbia this Sunday, 4 June

    FREE screening of the documentary The End of Suburbia about the end of the age of cheap oil. Introduced by weather man and environmental ambassador Rob Gell. Sunday June 4, 1:30 – 3:30 pm Rowville and District Neighbourhood House 20 Fulham Road, Rowville (Melway 81 K1)

  • Wanted: Bus service for Templestowe Road

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) and Templestowe Road Reference Panel have joined forces to demand the State Government provide funding for a new bus service along Templestowe Road joining Heidelberg Station and The Pines.

  • Box Hill interchange petition

    Federal MP Anna Burke is running a petition for the renovation of the Box Hill public transport interchange. You can download the petition here. (PDF, 18Kb)

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.