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  • 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.

  • Train users: Claim your compensation

    Train users who used a Monthly or longer ticket in February have until April 30th to claim compensation (a Daily ticket) from Connex for poor performance. While the PTUA views the current compensation arrangements as inadequate, we do encourage eligible users to claim. A daily ticket may not be much compensation from continual disruptions on…

  • 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.

  • Commonwealth Games: Prepare to be snug with strangers

    Left click on the picture for a big version you can use as your computer wallpaper (using Right click, Set as desktop background). Games transport — Tonight, Wednesday 15th March, there will be major disruptions to CBD tram and bus services between 6pm and 8pm. Click here for details. For all other Games transport changes,…

  • March 2006 newsletter

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  • The real “balance” between freeways and public transport

    When faced with accusations that it is spending too much on roads and not enough on public transport, it is common for the government to play the “balance” card. They argue that we need both; that there has to be a balance of spending. It’s only when you look closer at where the new money…

  • 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.