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
- Community members from across Melbourne's West gathered last Thursday, alongside local and state government representatives to ask the question ‘Why is the West still waiting for Better Buses in 2024?’
- MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release Friday 8th March EVENT: Saturday 9th March 11am corner of Watton St and Station Pl in Werribee Members of the public are gathering this Saturday March 9th at 11am to mark 1000 days since Victoria’s Bus Plan was released by the Victorian government, claiming they still aren’t seeing any […]
- MEDIA RELEASE Friends of the Earth’s Better Buses Campaign welcomed the findings of Infrastructure Victoria’s Fast, frequent, fair: how buses can better connect Melbourne report, showing the benefits of bus network reform and how the Allan Labor government should prioritise investment in better bus services. The report details how an uplift in Melbourne’s […]
- There is huge momentum in the community, but where is the political will?
- On Friday 22nd September 2023, the Sustainable Cities collective along with the Act on Climate collective hosted the party of the year aboard a bus!