Tag: budget
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Presentation: Integrated Transport Planning
Today, upon invitation from Dr. Robin Goodman, the Postgraduate Course Coordinator for the Environment and Planning Program at RMIT, I presented a community perspective into the Ringwood Transit City Project for RMIT’s Integrated Transport Planning Course. The slides and speech content are available here.
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Wyndham Council to Government : Let Us Do Your Job
Both the Herald Sun and the MX have today reported that Wyndham City Council, (in Melbourne’s outer west) has formed an internal working group to undertake a scoping study for the Wyndham City Council to construct, own and operate its own tramway system. This demonstrates that an ever increasing number of councils throughout all of…
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A Fairer Place To Be?
The Bracks Government’s sixth budget claimed to hold the overall theme of making Victoria A Fairer Place To Be yet while small amounts of funding was allocated for public transport many areas will still remain isolated. In response the disappointing public transport improvements provided in the State Budget I issued the following statement (which is…
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Breakfast With Brumby
This morning as the Outer East Branch Convener of the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) I attended the Outer East MP’s 2005 Budget Breakfast. The keynote speaker was the Treasurer John Brumby who presented an overview of the current Victorian State Budget and its implications for the outer east. While obviously a number of issues…
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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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2005 : The Year of the Outer East
Tonight the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) Outer East Branch met for the first time in 2005 and discussed issues such as the Knox and Doncaster tram extensions and the need for the Stud Road SmartBus service that must be funded in the upcoming state budget. It is imperative that the Stud Road SmartBus is…
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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…
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Speech for Public Transport: Is It Moving You?
This speech was delivered in August 2004 during the public meeting, Public Transport – Is It Moving You? held in Croydon and jointly organised by the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) Outer East Branch and the Croydon Conservation Society (CCS). This meeting attracted over 100 attendees and with people literally crowded outside the doors it…