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1 07, 2007

Factsheet #1: Federal funding for public transport

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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 [...]

1 07, 2007

Factsheet #2: Belgrave / Lilydale rail line

By |2018-02-27T13:44:53+11:00July 1st, 2007|Factsheets|0 Comments

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 [...]

1 07, 2007

Factsheet #3: The Dandenong Rail Corridor

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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 [...]

1 07, 2007

Factsheet #4: Rail to Rowville

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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 [...]

1 07, 2007

Factsheet #5: Rail to Doncaster

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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 [...]

1 07, 2007

Factsheet #6: Better Transport Interchanges

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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 [...]

1 07, 2007

Factsheet #7: Better Bus Services

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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 [...]

26 06, 2007

ETC takes campaign to Canberra

By |2018-02-27T13:44:53+11:00June 26th, 2007|Media Releases|0 Comments

The Eastern Transport Coalition will be taking its campaign for the Federal Government funding for key eastern suburbs public transport projects to Canberra in August. ETC Chairperson, Cr Mick Van De Vreede said that the ETC would travel to Canberra to seek support from the Government and ALP to reduce road congestion in the outer [...]

4 06, 2007

East – West? The answer is rail

By |2018-02-27T13:44:53+11:00June 4th, 2007|Media Releases|0 Comments

The Eastern Transport Coalition has made a submission to the East-West needs Review calling on the State Government to fix Melbourne’s capacity and congestion issues by expanding the public transport network. Chairperson, Cr Mick Van De Vreede said that by expanding the rail network cars would be removed from the roads and greenhouse gas emissions [...]

21 05, 2007

ETC Chair meets Public Transport Minister

By |2018-02-27T13:44:53+11:00May 21st, 2007|Media Releases|0 Comments

The Chair of Eastern Transport Coalition has met with the Minister for Public Transport, Lynne Kosky to outline its agenda for the improvement of public transport in Melbourne’s east. Chairperson, Cr Mick Van de Vreede said that the coalition had met with the previous Minister and considered it important to brief the new Minister. Cr [...]