Wrong Way: Go Back

A report by the State government’s own Victorian Competition and Efficiency commission on Making the Right Choices : Options for Managing Transport Congestion pointed out the peril of clearways as a solution to road congestion.  It said (at page 295):
The impacts that clearways have on congestion are not straightforward.  Clearways are often used to tackle [...]

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By Colleen Hartland, Greens MLC and shadow Minister for the Western Suburbs. 
“The Westgate Bike Punt is the missing link in this plan.”
“It would take peanuts to run, and could potentially be self-funding after a few years,” said Ms Hartland
” I welcome the new shared bike and walking path along Whitehall and Hyde Streets in Yarraville, [...]

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The recent state government decision to extend clearways in Melbourne’s inner suburbs is completely wrong-headed.  Protests have broken out in Bridge Road, Richmond and Stonnington.
Extended clearways will not reduce road congestion or assist trams or buses or their passengers to get to their destinations more quickly or more safely. 
Clearways will simply attract more cars and while [...]

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The government has announced that all inner city clearway times will be extended to 630am - 10am city bound and 3pm-7pm outbound. 
Strip shopping traders know full well what this will do their business.  The renaissance of strip shopping will be reversed and the big box centres like Chadstone will be the winners.  Here’s the list.  [...]

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San Francisco’s Embarcadero Freeway was planned and construction was started during the highway-building frenzy of the 1950’s. But when San Franciscans got a look at the huge concrete-and-steel structure blocking the “city by the bay” from its bay, they stopped it in mid-course along its planned waterfront route to a connection with the Golden Gate Bridge.
In [...]

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Some of us got together on the corner of Nicholson Street and Alexandra Pde.  For those who don’t know, the grassy park there used to have a large heritage building on it - till VicRoads came in and blew it up early one morning as part of an road widening in the 1990s.
Here’s our first [...]

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A little while back the Age newspaper wrote a small piece about PR consultants Futureye having been hired to develop an ‘outrage mitigation’ strategy for the Department of Infrastructure, who’d been stung by anger against overcrowding and poor performance in the running of public transport State tried to quell transport critics, Clay Lucas, March 24, 2008
We’ve [...]

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Federal Member of the seat of Melbourne Lindsay Tanner has written a submission against a new road tunnel for inner Melbourne.   Very eloquent he was too.   That was while he was in opposition.  Now he’s in government and federal Minister for Finance, he’s bankrolling a further study of tunnel options, to the tune of $12 [...]

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Every year, for the last four years the  government have underestimated the growth in public transport patronage.  Massively underestimated it.
Last year the government predicted 5% growth in train patronage and got 14%.  The oil price just broke a new record but for next year  they are predicting 10% growth in train patronage.  When will they learn?
Despite [...]

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