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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems around Australia and the world take thousands of cars off the road every day. If implemented in Melbourne, a BRT could get the 15,000 bus passengers using the Eastern Freeway each day to their destination more quickly.

Over 15,000 passengers travel on a bus on the Eastern Freeway each day - a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service between Manningham and the city would make more than 3 million journeys per year more efficient and reliable.

Manningham is already serviced by the DART bus service but there are several reasons why the ETC wants a Bus Rapid Transit service to go to Manningham, we have outlined a few here:

The ETC welcomes Transdev's BRT proposal, announced in The Age this week. This is our second explainer in our BRT-series. Check out why we think the BRT is a good idea:

With the announcement yesterday that Transdev has submitted a proposal to the State Government for Melbourne's first ever designated busway running down the Eastern Freeway, we thought we would share with you a series of posts explaining the background of the Bus Rapid Transit System in a bit more detail.

Media Release Tuesday 6 June 2017 Commuters Count in Melbourne’s East Better bus services, improvements to cycling and walking paths and extensions to tram and train lines are all on the agenda for Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. The Eastern Transport Coalition (ETC) has kicked off its Commuters Count campaign, aimed at getting the State and Federal [...]

With the Victorian and Federal budget announcements behind us, the ETC has looked through both budgets in order to find projects and funding that will assist us in our mission to give commuters in Melbourne’s east access to good connections, quality interchanges, and services that are frequent and reliable. Unfortunately, there was little in store [...]