Yarra Campaign for Action on Transport

City of Yarra - Media Release: Yarra rejects Hoddle Street overpass proposal (10 December 2008)*
Proposed multiple overpasses on Hoddle Street would only worsen gridlock on the arterial and create local eyesores, the City of Yarra said today. City of Yarra Mayor Cr Amanda Stone said the local community would be horrified with the Government’s [...]

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The Age: Can Spring Street deliver on transport plan? (December 29, 2008)
In the first 24 hours after its release, the Victorian Transport Plan received generally positive coverage. However, the combination of a bad week on Melbourne’s road and rail networks plus a closer examination of the detail of the plan has led to significant criticism.
Some [...]

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Leader Newspapers: State Government’s $38b transport plan - what it means for your area (December 10, 2008)
Premier John Brumby unveiled his government’s strategy to ease the squeeze on Melbourne’s roads and public transport system - a $38 billion blueprint over the next 12 years. The long-term plan is aimed at alleviating Melbourne’s crowded public transport [...]

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The Age: Tunnel mooted to fix Hoddle traffic (22 December, 2008)
A four-kilometre road tunnel from the MCG to the Eastern Freeway is among key recommendations in a report into fixing traffic jams on Hoddle Street, commissioned by the Brumby Government.
The $1.5 billion tunnel concept is in a report by engineers GHD, which was commissioned by [...]

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Kenneth Davidson says The real plan is to push us back into cars (The Age, 15 December, 2008)

Public transport in Brumby’s scheme smacks of a road agenda.

Given the universal concern about global warming and the importance of transport in the generation of greenhouse gases, it is vital that any proposal for the future development of [...]

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The Age Letters - Missing in action: Climate change (10th December, 2008)
The latest Victorian transport plan is a profound disappointment, offering more of the same: continued investment in the very roads that are choking our city and causing congestion (neatly put as joining up the “missing links”). There is also the obligatory lip service about [...]

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