Tag: bus network
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The Age: Public transport on track for relief
The Age has today reported on rising speculation about the contents of the upcoming Transport and Liveability Statement. This statement aims to achieve integration between transport, planning and budgetary outcomes – an extremely noticeable failure of the much criticised Metropolitan Transport Plan (released November 2005) and Melbourne 2030. It is no secret that Melbourne’s bus…
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MX: Bus overhaul needed
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has called for a radical overhaul of Melbourne’s bus network as part of the upcoming Transport and Liveability Statement to ensure that bus routes operate in a direct, frequent and efficient manner. Today’s MX reported on this issue in regard to the unnecessary complexity of Melbourne’s bus network. City…
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PTUA Outer East Branch – First Meeting for 2006
The Outer East Branch of the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) met tonight for its first meeting in 2006. Items discussed included the upcoming Transport and Liveability Statement. In the words of Steve Bracks this much anticipated statement “would address an imbalance between road and public transport” (Leader Newspapers, Tuesday 14th of February 2006) and…
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City of Greater Dandenong continues weekend bus services
I have just been informed that the City of Greater Dandenong has decided to continue funding the council funded weekend bus services. The council funded services will continue through to the end of May with the goal of securing state government funding for better public transport services after this date. The City of Greater Dandenong…
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Maroondah Leader: Summer timetable blues
The Maroondah Leader has today reported on the PTUA’s efforts to abolish the current punitive summer holiday timetables for bus services that operate predominately within Maroondah and Manningham: A PUBLIC transport group has renewed calls for an end to summer timetables on Maroondah services. Public Transport Users Association spokesman and councillor Alex Makin last week…
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Rhetoric and reality
This letter was sent to The Age in response to State Government claims that public transport is allocated according to need: IT IS hypocritical for the acting Premier, John Thwaites, to claim that money allocated for public transport would be spent “where it was most needed” while denying the people of Greater Dandenong weekend bus…
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Bus Service Rests in Government Hands
The State Government has constantly claimed that its top priority for public transport was upgrading service levels on the bus network. There is basis behind this rationale, after all the average bus service finishes at 6:58 pm while train and tram services operate through to midnight and only 18% of Melbourne’s buses operate on Sundays.…
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Summer Timetable Cutbacks Must Be Permanently Removed
While Melbourne’s train and tram network faces a summer holiday timetable period, from late December to mid January, these timetable modifications largely affect peak hour services. In contrast however, due to different contract standards from the rest of the bus network, National Bus Company, which operates most bus routes within Maroondah, operates a summer timetable…
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The Age: Bid to unite transport, planning
The Age recently conducted a number of features exploring the woes facing Melbourne’s public transport system. The difficulties facing Melbourne’s public transport stem from the lack of leadership provided by the State Government in ensuring progress towards the goal of increasing public transport modal share to 20% by the year 2020. In fact public transport…