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About Sustainable Cities

The Sustainable Cities Collective is a grassroots movement jointly coordinated by Friends of the Earth Melbourne and the Public Transport Users Association. The collective is dedicated to promoting urban sustainability and equitable transportation access. Drawing from a diverse array of community members, activists, and experts, this collective strives to address pressing environmental and social challenges inherent in modern urban landscapes. Emphasizing the need for sustainable transportation solutions, they highlight the detrimental impacts of car-centric infrastructure on public health and urban livability, through community organising to build solutions that are informed by the lived experience of everyday Melburnians.

Better Buses

Better Buses is a sustainable cities campaign, calling on the Victorian state government to transform the bus network in Melbourne’s fast-growing western suburbs to a fast, frequent and connected grid of clean, electric buses running 10-minute frequency all day, every day, and increasing our access to jobs, education, healthcare and to each other!

Sustainable Cities News

• MEDIA RELEASE: Buses get headlines but more vision needed to transform life in the suburbs
  20 May 2025
  Tuesday, 20th May, 2025 Today’s Victorian State Budget headlined transport. For the first time, buses have got the recognition they deserve as the fast, affordable cost-of living solution for millions of Victorian families.  But, the new bus announcements are only one step towards the transformation of the bus system the West needs to deliver real […]
• MEDIA RELEASE: Buses the missing link in Premiers $5bn PT announcement
  12 May 2025
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Melbourne’s West needs Better Buses to provide a ‘Funnel to the Metro Tunnel’   The Allan Labor Government today announced that the 2025/26 Victorian Budget will include an investment of almost $5 billion in a public transport blitz to amplify rail capacity in the west, including $727 million to operationalise […]
• West needs to see action after Minister's comments "buses are the poor cousin"
  2 May 2025
  Response to ABC ‘Victorian transport minister labels buses the “poor cousin” in state’s PT network’ article published 1/5/25    On Wednesday, the Minister for Public and Active Transport Gabrielle Williams attended the PTAANZ’s ‘Moving People, Transforming Cities’ symposium, where she spoke about the need to invest in the Victorian bus industry. While this isn’t news […]
• 660 new bus services across the West: A welcoming step, but more has to be done to make buses an attractive option for residents
  15 April 2025
  Tuesday 15 April For immediate release Last Sunday the 660 new bus services announced by Minister of Active and Public Transport Gabrielle Williams following the recent boost of V/Line train services on the Ballarat, Ararat, Warrnambool and Bendigo Lines were officially introduced across Melbourne’s Western suburbs, with most bus services that connected to the Ballarat […]
• Media release: The Victorian Government continues its piecemeal approach to bus reform. Bus advocates to rally as upper house debates reform this Wednesday.
  24 November 2024
  https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/new-bus-service-connect-eynesbury-melton-station Last Tuesday (19/11) the Minister for Public and Active Transport, Gabrielle Williams announced that a new bus route will commence on Sunday 8th December, connecting Eynesbury and Weir Views with Melton Station. There is no doubt that this is a much needed service for Melbourne’s fast-growing west. However, in comparison with this government’s investment […]