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Month: September 2007

  • Moving Australians Sustainably

    Public transport groups from around Australia recently joined with the PTUA to publish a report on the role of public transport in federal transport policy. The report – Moving Australians Sustainably: Transport Policy in the National Interest – looked at how public transport contributes to a range of federal policy objectives and responsibilities. The report…

  • September 2007 newsletter

    Please join the PTUA to receive regular newsletters. September 2007 edition articles: New train timetables and free rides to bring little relief Contracts extended until 2009 PTUA Annual General Meeting: Thursday October 25th Moving Australians Sustainably V/Line overcrowding now rampant

  • ‘Dead Time’ tolls trams

    Traffic lights “designed to make trams slow”, study finds Melbourne’s trams are spending up to a third of their travel time needlessly stationary, at a cost of millions of dollars a year, according to research to be presented at a major transport conference today. “We call it ‘dead time’,” said Tony Morton, who carried out…

  • New timetables welcomed — Now more trains needed

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has welcomed the announcement of extra train services onto Melbourne’s overcrowded rail network, but warned that this should only be the first step to addressing the problems plaguing the system. “Premier Brumby knows he has to work to solve our transport crisis, and this is a good first step”,…

  • Some ’50s service would fix the trains

    As the annual patronage on Melbourne’s trains climbs through 180 million, it may only be a year or two before we reach the record of 201 million set in 1951. And yet our Government seems to be approaching this milestone not so much with delight as with fear and trepidation (The Age, 7/9). How can…