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June 2015 State Budget Delivers for Rail, but Less So for Tram and Bus N e w s Public Transport Users Association www.ptua.org.au ISSN 0817 – 0347 Volume 39 No. 2 June 2015 State Budget delivers for rail, but less so for tram and bus Funding provided in this year’s State Budget But there’s less in this budget for trams and buses, means the government will take significant strides which provide vital connectivity for communities to bring the rail system into the 21st century, not blessed with trains. however tram upgrades are more limited, and most bus routes are unlikely to see any While the budget funds 20 additional E-class trams, improvements. the PTUA is concerned that the government’s 2015-2025 rolling stock plan (released just before The Budget included: the Budget) includes a reduction in tram fleet size until 2021. In the short term, larger E-class trams •$2.4b to commence the removal of 20 level will replace multiple smaller Z-class trams, crossings by 2018 indicating that some routes will •$1.5b to for full planning and see less frequent tram services. early works on the Metro rail tunnel And there appears to be no new •$1.3b for 37 new design high funding for tram priority capacity metro trains for the initiatives, which would help Dandenong line reduce delays and make better use of the tram fleet. More low- •$274m for an additional 20 E- floor trams are welcome, but class trams having them sitting waiting at •$257m for 21 V/Locity traffic lights is not. carriages and a maintenance facility at Waurn Ponds Buses get targeted improvements, including •$90m for 5 X’Trapolis trains worthwhile upgrades to •$75m to refurbish the Comeng train fleet interchanges such as Huntingdale, and new •$21m to commence refurbishing the B-class tram university shuttle services for Latrobe and Deakin. fleet But it appears overall bus service upgrades will be •$56m to begin trials of high-capacity signalling limited, with most routes remaining at relatively •$50m to trial “Homesafe” all-night trains and trams poor service levels. on weekends Also missing from the Budget is duplication of •$100m for bus upgrades including additional single track sections, which remain a significant university shuttles barrier to reliable, frequent train services. The •Up to $220m for the Murray Basin rail project Mernda rail extension has only been funded for •$9m for planning the Mernda rail extension planning, with the government saying construction funding will follow next year. The Andrews Government deserves credit for taking rail transport seriously. High capacity trains and The lack of a comprehensive public transport plan signalling, more V/Line carriages, level crossing remains a concern. PTV put out its rail plan in 2012, removals, and a start on the metro rail tunnel will all but their long-term plans for bus and tram have help improve the rail system, which is the backbone never been publicly released. Perhaps there’s an of our public transport network and essential for the overall strategy, but if there is, it’s being kept secret. prosperity of our city. PTUA News – June 2015 – Page !1 Keeping in Committee Member meetings Anthony Morton – President Melbourne: touch… Tim Long – Secretary Meetings will be advertised in PTUA Phil Bourke – Treasurer News and on our website www.ptua.org.au PTUA office Daniel Bowen Ross House, Alison Clarke Geelong: 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne First Saturday of every month (except Telephone (03) 9650 7898 Matthew Ferrantino Jan), 10:30am e-mail: [email protected] Ian Hundley Mary MacKillop Room, St Mary's Parish Offices,cnr. Little Myers and Tony Mohr Internet Yarra streets, Geelong. David Robertson Our web site is at www.ptua.org.au Membership Enquiries Petra Stock The PTUA runs email lists for member Call or e-mail the office (see above) discussions, and to stay up to date with Bruce Sutherland PTUA members can obtain cheap PTUA events. Members can also view Jennifer Williams archived newsletters online: yearly Myki passes – see www.ptua.org.au/members/resources Geelong Branch: www.ptua.org.au/members/offers Paul Westcott – Convenor Movie screening now collect and publish monthly data on station skipping by Metro Trains. On Friday 17th July, the PTUA will present a The statistics, published in early May, confirms screening of the Outer Circle railway documentary, passenger suspicions that unscheduled bypassing of with filmmaker Ron Killeen taking questions stations has become a routine occurrence, not just a afterwards. Hayden Raysmith Room, Ross House, sporadic response to emergencies, with around 15 6:30pm. Admission $5, proceeds to go to the PTUA services each day altering their timetabled run to and to the filmmakers for their next production skip one or more stations. Private operator Metro Trains is now on notice that In brief… station skipping is to be used as intended - as an New national Greens leader emergency measure to restore schedules after major The PTUA thanks Christine Milne for her leadership disruptions, not for routine timetable management. of the Australian Greens from 2012 until her retirement announced in May, and wishes her well in future endeavours where she will doubtless continue In this issue as a staunch defender of environmental conservation and sustainable economic infrastructure. • State Budget - p1 The new national Greens leader is Victorian Senator Richard Di Natale. We are confident the Greens • Membership changes - p4 under his leadership will build on their strong • RRL finally opening - p5 political record of advocacy for sustainable public transport alternatives to road building. Their • Level crossings - p7 leadership, alongside that of the ALP, is particularly Newsletter contributors - Daniel Bowen, Tony vital at present given the ideological atavism of Morton, Berish Bilander, Ian Hundley, Paul Prime Minister Tony Abbott in denying Federal Westcott. funding to meritorious urban rail projects. Edited by Anna Morton. Printed by Kosdown, Port Melbourne. Station skipping statistics Our thanks to Margaret Pullar and the dedicated A welcome initiative in recent months from mailout team. Transport Minister Jacinta Allan is that PTV will PTUA News – June 2015 – Page !2 Not quite dead: Andrews Government revives western tollroad Our new State Government has The proposal was revealed to the because no other road has ever assured Victorians of the demise public only in April, compete with done so. Instead, it will further of the East West Link. Yet at the claims that it has a benefit-cost entrench car dependence and lead same time it is considering an ratio of $1.60 to the dollar and that to more traffic snarls in the city 'unsolicited proposal' by it has been in active development and suburbs. For example, it will Transurban for a tolled for two years. As with the East divert car traffic from Footscray motorway through Yarraville, West Link, the public has not been Road into the western end of the connecting to CityLink and a given any evidence to support the CBD, worsening traffic-sewer new exit to Dudley Street and the economic benefit claimed, nor is it conditions in Spencer St and King City. clear why Victorians are only now St and creating conflict with the Judging by its route and, crucially, hearing about it. life and business of the city. by the road capacity it adds on the When Sir Rod Eddington studied The road is also likely being used main approaches to the city, to cover serious gaps in the 'Western Distributor' Victoria’s freight strategy. proposal looks much more Webb Dock is being like the supposedly expanded with no rail cancelled East West Link access, and threatens to western section than the unleash a spate of B-triple original 'Westgate road trains on the West Gate Distributor' the government Bridge. We cannot just keep took to the election. That dumping rail freight in the proposal was about adding too-hard basket – we know off-ramps to the West Gate there are plenty more goods Bridge to divert trucks that could move smoothly, from local streets; it did not safely and efficiently by rail involve building a bigger if it weren’t for the weak pipe to funnel more car links that are often in traffic into the inner city. an east-west motorway for Melbourne itself. Given it appears designed to boost Melbourne in 2008, the resulting If Victoria takes Federal money for private car traffic, it is unlikely to figures gave the road – combining this road and it proves not to work, fulfil its alleged purpose of the eastern and western sections – that is billions of dollars less we’ll speeding up freight travel. As with a benefit-cost ratio of just 45 cents be entitled to claim in the future all projects to expand road space in the dollar. The previously secret for any purpose. Victoria may be with freight as a pretext, it is likely 2013 business case for the eastern vulnerable to being bullied by the (just as CityLink and the Western section obtained the exact same road-obsessed Abbott Government Ring Road did before it) to figure. right now, but if a project is a encourage a resurgence in private The Andrews Government must waste of money, it’s a waste of car travel, including from many hold the line on transparency in money regardless of the politics. who previously used public infrastructure decisions. It rightly People would rather have more transport. It is this private car favours the Metro rail tunnel, money to spend on their families travel, driven on to the roads by which provides around six times than fork out top dollar for road poor public transport alternatives, the passenger capacity of the tolls. that is the primary impediment to proposed road and whose net The Western Distributor is likely to road freight.
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