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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Moreland Council called a public meetings to discuss the proposed road tunnel.
Greens Maribyrnong Councillor and Melbourne Transport Forum representative Janet Rice proposed a 30 year transport plan for Melbourne that would result in sixty percent of trips by public transport, bicycles or walking and forty percent by car.
“That means more tram and bus services connecting [...]
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Greens MLC Colleen Hartland, who spoke at last weekend’s rally of the Maribyrnong Truck Action group says:
Diesel is deadly. It doesn’t matter where you live.
The Eddington report recommends doing a heap of road work then closing residential streets to trucks.
He wants to shift the trucks to someone else’s residential street, someone else’s kindergarten, someone else’s [...]
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Our city is under threat. The big end of town have been lobbying the ALP State Government for years, to one end: more and bigger roads, run by private companies.
Their plan goes against everything that we understand about cities
- that freeways increase congestion, rather than reducing it;
- that cities which go down that route find the [...]
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Authorised by Greg Barber, 377 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. greg.barber@vic.greens.org.au