Tag: bus services
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Yarrunga Retirees Group
The Yarrunga Retirees Group is one of the many community groups that operate through the Yarrunga Community Centre which is located in Croydon Hills within Maroondah. Upon invitation I spoke to the Yarrunga Retirees Group about the need for improved public transport within both Maroondah and Melbourne overall. While areas located close to rail stations…
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Footmen Club – 30th Anniversary
Tonight marked the 30th anniversary of The Footmen Club, an association of leading business people who provide assistance to individuals facing severe financial hardship. Weg Green, renowned comic provided caricatures of the public. While Australia is not as strongly regarded for its philanthropic culture as the United States, this does not mean that a culture…
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Ringwood Chamber of Commerce: Around Our Town
The Ringwood Chamber of Commerce’s Around Our Town event provides an opportunity for the business community to hear about the latest developments within the fields of business and Maroondah. Tonight’s event focused on the Ringwood Transit City and the potential that Ringwood has to offer for both the business community and for residents. Ringwood is…
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Maroondah Journal: Transport plan 'not enough'
The Maroondah Journal has reported on the local effects of the Bracks government’s recently released Transport and Liveability Statement: While eastern suburbs’ Labor MPs, transport agencies and the Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS) applauded the strategy, Public Transport Users Association spokesman Alex Makin criticised it. While initiatives such as minimum service standards for bus…
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Eastern Transport Coalition (ETC) Meeting – Presentation by Peter Batchelor
Tonight’s Eastern Transport Coalition (ETC) meeting featured a presentation by the current Minister for Transport Peter Batchelor in regard to the Transport and Liveability Statement. While bus services are receiving much needed funding, the government’s minimum service standard are sorely inadequate. Likewise the failure for the government to provide much needed infrastructure investment in new…
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Meeting Our Transport Challenges – The Media Verdict
News of the government’s transport and liveability statement featured in both the Herald-Sun and The Age with both papers focused on the poor response the statement had received: Herald-Sun: THE Bracks Government’s election-year transport statement has been met with both praise and disappointment. Winners such as Connex, Metlink and the Bus Association of Victoria were…
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Is the Government really Meeting Our Transport Challenges?
The State Government has finally released the much anticipated and over hyped Transport and Liveability Statement. Dubbed Meeting Our Transport Challenges the statement ultimately fails to live up to its name. While the statement claims to contain a 10 year blueprint for Melbourne’s transport needs and includes an outlook for 25 years it fails on…
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Maroondah Leader: Tolls certain after Libs do backflip
The Maroondah Leader has reported that tolls are now a certainty on EastLink given that the State Opposition, Victorian Liberal Party has dropped its unsustainable ‘half-tolls’ policy. Ted Baillieu should be congratulated for scrapping an unsustainable and costly policy: He said subsidising tolls for the first six years after EastLink opened was a short-term solution…
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The Age: Libs told to do better
Amid news of a new leader for the Victorian Liberal Party, the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) has challenged the State Opposition to focus on the issue of sustainable transport instead of condemning Melbourne to unsustainable and costly car dependence. The Age has reported on the PTUA’s call for these policies to be revised: Association…
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The Age: Petrol price sky high, pressuring rates
As reported in The Age rising petrol prices have become a familiar sight in recent times as an increasing number of commentators reiterate that that the era of cheap petrol is over: PETROL rose to a record high $1.45 a litre across Melbourne yesterday following warnings that it will increase further – potentially boosting inflation…