Category: Newsletters

  • Government’s transport plan flops

    20% by 2020 target dumped The government’s long-awaited transport plan “Meeting Our Transport Challenges” was released on 17th of May. But far from being the all-encompassing solution for Melbourne (and Victoria’s) problems with transport that they had promoted it as being, the government has missed the mark. While there will be a number of improvements…

  • May 2006 newsletter

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  • 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)

  • 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…

  • Archived newsletters (2001 to 2005)

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