Yarra Campaign for Action on Transport

The Age: Tunnel may free up Hoddle Street (March 28, 2010)
A $1.5 billion plan to ease Hoddle Street’s traffic gridlock with a new underground road will be raised at a meeting of transport, government and business groups this week as they consider options to fix the notorious traffic snarl.
The proposal to duplicate the street underground, [...]

[Read more →]

Leading academics and community representatives will provide responses to the Victorian Transport Plan at a forum to be held by the GAMUT Centre at the University of Melbourne.
The forum will be held at 11 am Wednesday 10 December,University of Melbourne, Room 225, Alice Hoy Building (Education Building, just off Swanston St)
Speakers at the forum will [...]

[Read more →]

So far the news in today’s announcement is NO ROAD TUNNEL, although the full details should still be examined before any popping of champagne corks.
Victorian Transport Plan: A better transport network
The Victorian Transport Plan sets out the steps the Victorian Government will take to transform our transport system. Through a $38 billion investment we will [...]

[Read more →]

Last week Greens MLCs Colleen Hartland and Greg Barber launched a report by Kate Wilson from the University of Melbourne that analysed the 2149 public submissions in the Eddington Report process. The report proves that the public overwhelmingly opposes the proposed road tunnel, and want better public transport instead.

Read a copy of the report on [...]

[Read more →]

Walk Against Warming: Saturday, 15th November - 1pm at Federation Square
A reminder about tomorrows Walk Against Warming, CTAG (Coalition of Transport Action Groups) has decided to support this with representatives from each group. Chris, John and Freda will holding the YCAT banner up so come and join us at Federation Square.
Transport is a Climate [...]

[Read more →]

Sir Rod Eddington in defending his contentious proposal for a road tunnel has hit back at his critics, suggesting many had bought into “myths” about the green benefits of public transport. As reported in The Leader November 4, Sir Rod Eddington, said the transport debate was “surrounded by a series of myths”, such as the [...]

[Read more →]