Archive for February, 2006

Bus Network Needs Radical Overhaul

February 20th, 2006 (Media releases)

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.
“Melbourne’s current bus network is antiquated and unable to cater to the needs of modern society,” PTUA spokesman Alex Makin said. “With outdated […]

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Campbellfield a Transport ‘Black Hole’

February 10th, 2006 (Media releases, Melbourne north)

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.
PTUA secretary Tony Morton said Campbellfield station is an obvious omission on the Upfield line - serving both a busy […]

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Apple Orchards, or 21st Century?

February 7th, 2006 (Media releases, Melbourne east)

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.
“The government must assume we are all idiots and that paying lip service […]

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Southland Station “Obvious”

February 7th, 2006 (Media releases, Melbourne south)

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.
PTUA president Daniel Bowen said it was obvious that a station should be provided for such a major activity centre that was right next to a railway […]

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