To further its advocacy for public transport improvements, the ETC has produced a series of factsheets highlighting its priorities for the region:

Despite having one of the highest levels of urbanisation, Australia remains the only OECD nation where the Federal Government does not provide funds for sustainable transport infrastructure.

This places Australia at an international disadvantage, compared to countries such as the UK and US, whose national governments invest heavily in public transport infrastructure.

The Federal Government currently funds major upgrades of roads and public transport should be eligible for similar funding, especially since it would reduce congestion and greenhouse gases.

• View Factsheet #1: Federal funding for public transport

To further its advocacy for public transport improvements, the ETC has produced a series of factsheets highlighting its priorities for the region:

The Belgrave/Lilydale line, with approximately 93,000 daily boardings, is Melbourne’s most highly patronised rail line. Ringwood, 25.8 kilometres eastwards from Flinders Street, serves as a junction between the Belgrave and Lilydale lines.

Linking many of Melbourne’s main activity centres and growth areas, the Belgrave/Lilydale line is critical to ensuring liveable eastern suburbs and now is the time to expand the capacity and allow for future growth.

• View Factsheet #2: Belgrave / Lilydale rail line

To further its advocacy for public transport improvements, the ETC has produced a series of factsheets highlighting its priorities for the region:

The Dandenong line with approximately 60,000 daily boardings is experiencing some of Melbourne’s highest levels of patronage growth.

Dandenong, 31.2 kilometres from Flinders Street, serves as a junction between the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines.

Since it links many of Melbourne’s main activity centres and growth areas, the Dandenong line has been nominated for an expansion in capacity and the ETC looks forward to its delivery as quickly as possible. With the rapid growth experienced this additional track is required to provide reliable express services and to facilitate efficient travel of V/Line regional services.

• View Factsheet #3: The Dandenong Rail Corridor

To further its advocacy for public transport improvements, the ETC has produced a series of factsheets highlighting its priorities for the region:

Linking the CBD, Monash University and Stud Park, rail to Rowville has long been acknowledged as the missing link of Melbourne’s train network and now is the time to commit to its expansion and provide for the removal of 2400 cars an hour off local roads.

The Rowville rail line would also service Monash University which has over 23,000 students and a scientific precinct that includes Australia’ first synchrotron.

The City of Monash alone accounts for 6% of all metropolitan jobs within Melbourne, with the majority of employees living in neighbouring municipalities such as Knox.

• View Factsheet #4: Rail to Rowville

To further its advocacy for public transport improvements, the ETC has produced a series of factsheets highlighting its priorities for the region:

The City of Manningham, with over 110,000 residents is the only municipality within Melbourne that lacks any form of rail or tram access. This places the region at a competitive disadvantage due to the lack of fixed rail infrastructure.

The existing bus services to Doncaster along the freeway has shown the high demand that exists for better public transport. The carrying capacity of the existing bus services is insufficient, resulting in severe overcrowding and the heavy congestion on the Eastern Freeway could be reduced with a rail line to Doncaster.

Doncaster Hill is a designated activity centre and includes major landowners such as Westfield Shoppingtown. Fixed rail would help facilitate the urban revitalisation of Doncaster Hill.

• View Factsheet #5: Rail to Doncaster

To further its advocacy for public transport improvements, the ETC has produced a series of factsheets highlighting its priorities for the region:

Melbourne’s public transport system needs to operate as an integrated network, consisting of coordinated travel between bus, tram and train services.

While issues relating to the frequency and temporal coverage need to be addressed, it is also imperative that interchanges are comfortable, accessible and facilitate ease of transferring between transport modes.

A number of transport interchanges are in need of upgrading to ensure they provide a convenient transfer between services.

• View Factsheet #6: Better Transport Interchanges

To further its advocacy for public transport improvements, the ETC has produced a series of factsheets highlighting its priorities for the region:

Whilst the expansion of rail and tram services is necessary to provide a fast and efficient public transport network, this must be complemented with bus service improvements to serve as feeder services to public transport nodes and activity centres.

In this regard, there is a need to couple bus service improvements with bus priority, such as transit lanes and traffic light priority, to provide a journey time competitive with car travel and a higher utilisation of the bus fleet overall, which result from reduced journey times.

• View Factsheet #7: Better Bus Services