Category: Maroondah City Council
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Community Participation within the Transit City Project
Community Participation within the Transit City Project was authored to ensure the aim of wider community participation and consultation within the Transit City Project. Through achieving this aim the community will hold greater confidence in the future of Ringwood and will more willingly accept a reasonable degree of change that will inevitably occur within the…
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ERITG : Seizing the Day for Bus Reform
The Eastern Region Integrated Transport Group (ERITG) consists of eight Outer East Councils to provide a regional approach to public transport advocacy. The current council members include: Knox Greater Dandenong Yarra Ranges Manningham Maroondah Whitehorse Monash Casey While each member council provides varying degrees of municipal specific public transport advocacy the aim of the regional…
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Rail: Ringwood Line
As a public transport lobbyist and community advocate I regularly meet MPs in regard to issues that require urgent attention. During my last meeting with Phil Honeywood, the Deputy Opposition Leader and Member for Warrandyte, I left a copy of the February 2005 edition of the PTUA newsletter which included a list of unfulfilled promises…
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Ringwood Residents – We Want to be Heard!
I and the Ringwood Transit City Community Coalition (RTCCC) must thank everyone who attended our public forum Ringwood. Tell Us The Future. With approximately 100 attendees the strong public attendance from us, the residents of Ringwood, sent a clear message that a lack of direct and meaningful community consultation will not be tolerated. We also…
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Speech for Ringwood: Tell Us The Future
This speech was delivered at the public forum Ringwood: Tell Us the Future organised by the Ringwood Transit City Community Coalition (RTCCC). The forum attracted approximately 100 attendees demonstrating the community’s desire for meaningful, open and direct consultation within the Ringwood Transit City Project. The speech I delivered at this forum is available here.
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Local Groups Form United Transit City Community Coalition
The formation of the Ringwood Transit City Community Coalition (RTCCC) will ensure that community concerns are represented and heard within the Ringwood Transit City Project. The very success of Ringwood depends upon meaningful community consultation. Without such consultation the viability of business investment will be threatened as the public will reject inappropriate plans that have…
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Eastern Region Integrated Transport Group (ERITG)
Tonight I presented to the Eastern Region Integrated Transport Group (ERITG) with the dual aims of identifying potential avenues of cooperation and demonstrating specific action that the group could utilise. ERITG is a group of eight outer eastern councils that provide a regional approach for council initiated advocacy for greater public transport. The councils involved…
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Public Transport… Is It Moving You?
Public Transport.. Is It Moving You? was the theme of the first public transport meeting held in Croydon, which like most of the outer east has suffered from continued public transport neglect. Organised by the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) and the Croydon Conservation Society (CCS), the meeting attracted well over 100 attendees. People were…