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  • Train timetable on the right track

    Users call for further changes and trains every half-hour The Public Transport Users Association’s Geelong Branch has welcomed V/Line’s new Geelong line timetable as an “important step in the right direction.”

  • Half our MPs ‘get on board’ for Car-Free Challenge

    Three of Geelong’s six MPs have accepted a challenge to go “car free” for some of their weekday journeys, the Public Transport Users Association announced today. Geelong Branch Convener, Tim Petersen, congratulated MPs Ian Trezise, Lisa Neville and John Eren for taking up the challenge to rely on public transport for at least some of…

  • MPs not keen on Car-Free Challenge — Users Suggest Relaxed Guidelines

    The Public Transport Users Association has suggested some relaxed guidelines for the seven-day car-free challenge, after one of the six Geelong MPs flatly refused to take part and no response was received from the others.

  • ‘Hand over your car keys’ — Geelong MPs challenged to a car-free week

    The Public Transport Users Association has challenged Geelong’s State MPs to survive one week without driving a car.

  • State budget burdening suburbs

    Transport Minister not supporting key ‘20% by 2020’ public transport policy The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has reignited calls for the resignation of the current Transport Minister, Peter Batchelor, amid a Budget that has failed to prevent excessive car dependence, with the goal of increasing public transport modal share sliding backwards.

  • 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.

  • Transport Statement Botched by Batchelor

    The Public Transport Users Association has condemned the Transport and Liveability Statement “Meeting Our Transport Challenges” and has demanded the immediate resignation of Transport Minister Peter Batchelor, citing no confidence in his ability to deliver overdue public transport improvements and crucial management reforms to ensure timely and efficient delivery of services.

  • Statement Condemns Geelong to Transport Failure

    The Public Transport Users Association today condemned the State Government’s Transport and Liveability Statement and demanded that the Transport Minister resign, citing no confidence in his ability to deliver overdue public transport upgrades. Geelong Branch Convenor Tim Petersen said the release of the long-awaited statement showed that the Government had no plans to roll out…

  • Transport and Liveability Statement: Pre-release audio

    These audio grabs are for radio news programmes, for the morning of Wednesday 17th May 2006, providing comment before the release of the Transport and Liveability Statement later today.

  • Transport Statement Must Go Beyond Promises

    The government’s Transport and Liveability Statement, due next week, will be “just another dead duck” unless it includes a plan for structural reform, including an efficient public agency to manage public transport, the Public Transport Users Association said today.

  • Call to scrap opposition’s car dependent transport policies

    The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has challenged the Victorian Liberal Party to develop new transport policies to ensure sustainable relief against mounting petrol prices.

  • Expensive third track costs Hurstbridge line

    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 Hurstbridge line upgrades, benefiting the entire north-eastern suburbs, and other projects in the upcoming “Transport and…