Sustainable Cities
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
- September 17 2025 For immediate release Around 2000 pages of material related to the review of Victoria’s Bus Plan were released by the Government on Tuesday>These documents show that significant bus reform was recommended by the Department of Transport and rejected by cabinet in 2023. The released documents, requested in 2024 by Upper House member […]
- On 1st July 2025 the Victorian Government kicked off their new zero-emission bus contracts which cover one-third of bus routes in metropolitan Melbourne.
- 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 […]
- 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 […]
- 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 […]