Yarra Campaign for Action on Transport

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.
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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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GAMUT has published short talks given at a forum responding to the Victorian Transport Plan.
You can listen to short podcasts from these speakers:

Tony Morton (Public Transport Users Association)
Jo Connellan (Metropolitan Transport Forum)
Mark Wakeham Environment Victoria
Cath Smith (Victorian Council of Social Service)
Natalie Zirngast Coalition of Transport Action Groups
Jason Black Planning Institute of Australia
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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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On Monday 9th December, The Brumby government released its Victorian Transport Plan. As expected, the Government deferred the East-West Tunnel from the Eastern Freeway to Royal Park.
So can the Yarra community take a collective breath? Probably not. Holland Park has definitely been saved, but Royal Park has merely had its execution stayed and the North [...]

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