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ISSN 0817–0347 Volume 33 No. 5 December 2009 The Victorian Transport Plan and ’s Population Boom

It has taken barely two years for one of the biggest shifts in trains, and not a broader vision to make our transport sus- the Victorian public transport debate to occur. tainable. Sure enough, much of our population growth is to As recently as 2007, the State government was shoring up be accommodated in new suburbs on Melbourne’s fringe, ar- its opposition to public transport expansion with a do-little eas which the VTP says are to be provided with new motor- plan—Meeting Our Transport Challenges—that was chiefly ways on the one hand, and hourly bus services on the other. about hosing down expectations of major public transport Clearly, ongoing car dependence for the vast majority of Mel- improvements. The attitude of the government was most burnians is “all part of the plan”: not just today but also in clearly expressed by Director of Public Transport Jim Betts 2030, and indeed in 2100 if the laws of physics permit. in a widely-reported statement in October 2005, that there The good news, however, is that desire for better public trans- was no intention to build any new urban rail lines in the next port, and awareness of the need to change old habits, is not decade. So, while the ‘MOTC’ plan released in 2006 did restricted to peak-hour commuters. This attitude shift has promise new orbital bus routes and some catch-up work on not yet bitten the government, which has yet to sustain polit- the existing rail system, there were few actual additions to ical damage on this wider front, thanks to its ability to hold public transport services. expectations at a miserably low level. But next year’s State Since 2007, however, the government has been seriously election will be the first to take place in this new ‘growth wrong-footed by train and tram patronage growth that it did era’ for public transport. Voters, many of whom have lived not expect, did not plan for, and in fact actively planned in other places and know good public transport when they against (by scrapping surplus Hitachi trains and Z class trams see it, will not let do-little bureaucrats and politicians off the between 2001 and 2005). Faced with substantial political hook forever. damage at the hands of angry commuters, the government has Shoring up car use on the Peninsula =⇒ Page6 had to rethink—if ever so slightly—its stance against service expansion. The Victorian Transport Plan, released in Jan- In this issue uary this year, was its response. Outwardly, it signalled a new era of major rail construction and expansion of service. Victorian Transport Plan, one year on...... 1 Keeping in touch...... 2 Yet behind the spin and glamour of its big project announce- AGM report...... 2 ments, the old do-little attitude remains. The main benefi- Members’ meeting...... 2 ciaries of the big projects are peak-hour commuters to the Climate action heats up...... 3 CBD—the one ‘market segment’ where the mode-share bat- Summer trains...... 3 tle is already won. Virtually nothing is said about boosting Clearways vs. real tram priority...... 4 off-peak services, or improving the network that connects Myki update...... 5 people to places other than the city centre. One of the orbital Buy another ticket...... 5 Smartbus routes promised in MOTC in 2006 has been qui- Periodicals left for dead...... 5 etly cancelled, and another shortened. And six months after Geelong branch...... 6 the gained Federal funding, its supposed Frankston / Peninsula campaign...... 6 users still do not know how it is supposed to operate. In brief...... 6 Recently, a new dimension has been added to the debate: the Henry Tax Review...... 7 question of how to accommodate the huge forecast growth in Movember at the PTUA...... 7 Melbourne’s population. But it is this question that reveals Volunteers sought...... 7 how limited the ‘VTP’ really is—that it’s really just a polit- ical response to angry peak-hour commuters in overcrowded PTUA News—December 2009—Page 1 Keeping in touch: Committee Member Meetings Daniel Bowen—President Melbourne PTUA Office Tony Morton—Secretary Dates / times as advised Ross House Kerryn Wilmot—Treasurer Ross House 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne Michael Galea 247 Flinders Lane, City Telephone (03) 9650 7898 Ian Hundley More details: see below Email: [email protected] Mark Johnson Eastern Suburbs Membership Enquiries Jason King Third Tuesday of every month, 7pm Call or email the office (see above). Tim Long ‘The Barn’ (behind Box Hill Baptist Rob Meredith Church) Commuter Club Tim Petersen PTUA members can obtain cheap 3 Ellingworth Parade (off Station St) David Robertson Box Hill yearly Metcards. See www.ptua. Vaughan Williams org.au/members/offers. Geelong Branch convenors Internet First Saturday of every month (except Paul Westcott—Geelong Jan), 10:30am Our website is at www.ptua.org.au. Jeremy Lunn—Eastern Suburbs The PTUA runs email lists for mem- Multimedia Room ber discussions, and to stay up to date Courthouse Youth Arts Centre with PTUA events. Members can Contact Corner Gheringhap and Little Malop also view archived newsletters online. All committee members can be Streets, Geelong See: www.ptua.org.au/members/ emailed using the format firstname. resources. [email protected].

PTUA Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the members (listed above), Paul Westcott PTUA took place at Ross House on will continue as convenor of the Gee- Members’ Monday 9 November. The highlight long Branch, and Jeremy Lunn will con- meeting: of the meeting was a video montage of tine to convene our Eastern Suburbs news clips and other media coverage of branch. 14 December the PTUA’s activities. Members were Following the formal business of the Our final members’ meeting for the invited to count the number of times the AGM, there was a period of general year takes place on Monday 14 De- ‘Myki machine falls apart’ clip was re- discussion in which the Committee an- cember, at 6pm at Ross House. In used in the year’s news bulletins! swered questions from members. Most keeping with the spirit of the season As the number of nominations for member questions focussed on the new there will be light refreshments, and PTUA Committee was equal to the Myki system, about which there is the opportunity to discuss issues of number of positions available, there clearly a lot of uncertainty—see articles concern to members. was no election held this year. The on page5 of this issue. Meetings are open to PTUA financial Committee welcomed two new mem- members only, but we encourage you bers, Michael Galea and Ian Hundley, Ample finger food and drinks rounded to bring a friend and sign them up on and farewelled retiring members Myles out the evening. Many thanks to our the night! Green, Bronwen Merner and Fiona Rae. dedicated Committee caterers for help- The meeting schedule will be chang- ing make this a success. ing for 2010: more details next issue. In addition to the elected Committee PTUA News—December 2009—Page 2 Climate action heats up

A few short days after this newsletter is and internationally. Kevin Rudd was tile Senate. On one hand the Greens of- published, world leaders will gather in named personally by the G77 group of fered to support the bill provided that Copenhagen to thrash out a new global developing nations who criticised the emission targets were strengthened to agreement to curb greenhouse gas emis- failure of developed nations to commit bring them into line with those recom- sions. At the time of writing, expecta- to an emissions reduction target “that mended by scientists. On the other tions are being actively managed down- saves the world,”—that is, at least 40% hand, those Liberals who want a CPRS wards, with leaders at the recent APEC below 1990 levels by 2020. at all have demanded additional com- meeting in Singapore suggesting only pensation for polluting industries (on Australia’s ‘unconditional’ offer of only a “political agreement” many emerge top of proposed reductions in fuel ex- 5% compares very poorly to pledges of from Copenhagen, with legally-binding cise) and a permanent exemption for up to 40% by 2020 by European nations details to follow in 2010—perhaps. agriculture. The Nationals, and many such as Norway. Meanwhile, our ‘con- Liberal Senators, continue to show lit- According to some commentators, fail- ditional’ offer of up to 25% contains so tle inclination to support the CPRS in ure to conclude a binding agreement many escape clauses that many analysts any form. Amid the farce playing out in in December 2009 may be a blessing suggest it is meaningless. For example, Canberra, science-based targets seem to in disguise. Author of the landmark the offer is conditional upon (among be all but forgotten. 2006 report for the British government other things) “global action which mo- on the economics of climate change, bilises greater financial resources;” yet Australians who are concerned Nicholas Stern, told the Financial Times development agencies such as Oxfam about the lack of commitment to that he would “much prefer a frame- accuse the Australian government itself ensuring a safe climate will have work that had to be filled in [next year] of holding back on financing climate an opportunity to show their frus- than something agreed with weak tar- change adaptation in developing coun- tration at the Walk against Warm- gets that would be difficult to unravel.” tries. ing on 12 December in various lo- Despite being elected on a wave of con- Back home, the Rudd government was cations around the country. cern about climate change, the position trying for a second time to get its For details visit being adopted by the Rudd Government heavily-criticised Carbon Pollution Re- www.waw.org.au has been criticised both within Australia duction Scheme (CPRS) through a hos- www.walkagainstwarming.org

Summer: Here we go again?

Train users may be in for another long buckling issues. While this programme ditional cost involved is minimal. hot summer, with many of the prob- is not expected to be finished for an- While the government has committed lems that plagued the system last sum- other fifteen years or so, maintenance to upgrading the Comeng train air- mer still unresolved. company MainCo told the Select Com- conditioners, we understand that only Chaos ensued last January and Febru- mittee on Train Services in July that a handful of test units have been fit- ary when heat-related failures coupled problem areas of the network have been ted in time for this summer. Mean- with strained relations between Connex targetted as a priority—which is why while Connex and the RTBU have made and rail unions resulted in some days you might see curved sections of track their peace and agreed to a new Fault having hundreds of cancellations. The with all their sleepers converted to con- Management Protocol, which assuming heat resulted in air-conditioning failures crete, but straight sections with only it rolls over to the new operator, Metro on a large number of Comeng trains some replaced. Trains Melbourne, should help reduce (a little more than half the fleet), and The concrete sleepers, like those used the number of cancellations due to mi- buckled rails on some key parts of the for Regional Fast Rail upgrades, are not nor faults. network, resulting in some lines sus- gauge convertible. While this is imma- The net result? Premier John Brumby pended. Added to this were electricity terial in the short term, it will raise prob- says all will be well, but we’ll have to supply problems, which resulted in sig- lems in the future due to the mess of in- wait and see. In preparation for hot days nal failures and power cut to trains. compatible rail gauges created in Victo- on the way, all regular train passengers There is a sleeper replacement pro- ria in the 1990s, and the need to move would do well to check their alterna- gramme underway to replace aging more freight onto rail. The PTUA’s po- tive routes home, such as researching wooden sleepers with concrete, which sition is that all new concrete sleepers buses or trams that connect to parallel if relaid properly largely resolves track should be gauge convertible, as the ad- rail lines. PTUA News—December 2009—Page 3 Extended clearways no solution for tram travel: PTUA study A new PTUA study confirms our But it starts to make sense if it is ac- In Sydney Road the trams averaged long-held contention: Trams in Mel- cepted that the biggest problem is traffic 16.5kph in the evening, but in Royal Pa- bourne are slow because the system is lights, not car congestion. rade they only averaged 15.1kph. Yet engineered to make them slow. Royal Parade has a barrier to keep the The conclusion of that study—that cars off the tram tracks—so there is no The five-month travel time study found trams spend up to one-third of their traffic for the trams to be caught in. no noticeable improvement in tram travel time just waiting for red lights— travel times from extended clearway was presented at a Melbourne trans- When people in officialdom talk about hours on Sydney Road in Brunswick— port conference in 2007, and is avail- delays to trams, then, just talking about but plenty of lost time due to red lights. able from the PTUA website under ‘Pa- ‘traffic congestion’ is far too simplistic. pers and Submissions’. There was also the opportunity to time For some time, PTUA Secretary Tony the tram in the middle of the day Morton has been travelling to and from The latest study is aimed at a newly con- on weekends, a time when trams are work with a stopwatch. The aim is to troversial question: whether clearways known to be significantly affected by measure—carefully and scientifically— improve tram travel speeds in ‘peak traffic queues. While a significant what it is that’s making Melbourne shoulder’ times. amount of dead time was observed— trams so slow. This is done by counting typically around five minutes—this is up the ‘dead time’ on tram journeys: the In July this year, the clearway fin- similar to the delay that occurs to lost time when the tram isn’t actually ish time in Sydney Road was extended Swanston Street trams on a regular ba- picking up or dropping off passengers, from 6pm to 7pm. Measurements prior sis, without any traffic queues. yet is not moving. to this show that northbound trams took an average of 9 minutes and 12 seconds The longest delays in Sydney Road oc- Previous travel time studies showed that to travel the length of Sydney Road cur in the morning peak (a clearway while trams do spend time in traffic Brunswick. Since July, the same trams time) on sporadic occasions when traf- queues in places where trams and cars have taken an average of 8 minutes and fic queues back up Sydney Road from share a lane, that’s not the biggest 58 seconds. The 14 second difference Brunswick Road. The longest of these source of delay. More often, a station- is not statistically significant, and may was a 20 minute delay. Yet even in- ary tram is just waiting for a red traffic well be down to pure chance (see below cluding these in the average, the average light to turn green. for details). speed is faster than just to the south, on the reserved tramway in Royal Parade. In 2007, a study on the Lygon Street We have also collected data for morn- tram found that even not counting ing peak travel to the city, and for travel These results call attention to the need boarding time, trams are delayed twice in Royal Parade, immediately south of for traffic light priority for trams. Clear- as long within the City of Melbourne Sydney Road. This evidence confirmed ways may help squeeze more cars onto boundaries as in the suburbs. This is the earlier finding: that trams are de- already congested inner-city streets, but surprising at first, because in the CBD, layed more by red lights close to the city claims that they speed up trams are not trams and cars occupy separate lanes. than by traffic queues further out. well-founded.

The results

Location, time and direction Av.travel time Av. speed Av.dead time (min:sec) (kph) (min:sec) Sydney Road, PM northbound, May–June 2009 9:12 16.3 1:19 Sydney Road, PM northbound, July–November 2009 8:58 16.7 1:22 Royal Parade, PM northbound 10:44 15.1 2:26 Sydney Road, AM southbound 10:20 14.5 2:01 Royal Parade, AM southbound 11:46 13.8 3:02

Observations were collected between 25 May 2009 and 13 November 2009. AM observations were collected between 8am and 8:30am. PM observations were collected between 6:00pm and 7:00pm. ‘Sydney Road’ means the section between Park Street and Moreland Road. ‘Royal Parade’ is measured between Haymarket and Park Street. All ‘averages’ are mean values. The difference of 14 seconds between mean travel time in May–June and in July–November is not statistically significant: that is to say, it is too small to reasonably rule out that it arose by chance alone (t = 0.77). The median travel time, at 9 minutes, is identical before and after the clearway extension.

PTUA News—December 2009—Page 4 Myki starting soon? tem on for the general public, but this odical (‘Myki Pass’) users. And at last will depend on the advice the TTA pro- you’ll be able to buy tickets on trams Our Myki meeting in October was vides based on what the test users find. with notes, not just coins. well-attended, and along with responses From what we can see, there have been from the Transport Ticketing Authority improvements to scanning speed, but But despite what politicians have said, (TTA) provided afterwards, answered a problems remain. How fast these can the system won’t be noticeably cheaper number of queries members had about be resolved is anyone’s guess. for those already used to buying fares in the new ticketing system. bulk. And early-adopters will want to Even the fastest scanners are likely to keep a close eye on their card balance At the time of writing, a thousand pub- cause delays on busy trams, with pas- and transactions, to make sure they’ve lic servants are busy testing the Myki sengers having to touch on and touch off been charged the right amounts while system around Melbourne and logging on every trip. And because tickets will the glitches are being ironed-out. their experience for the TTA. As well, have no printed information on them at “Myki Mates” have been deployed at all, it will be easy to mix them up if you =⇒ For more general information on the main railway stations to help the test have more than one in your wallet. how Myki will work, see the September users and answer queries from the gen- PTUA News, page 4, and www.ptua. There are some advantages of course eral public, the most common of which org.au/2009/11/18/myki-qa. (at a cost of $1.35 billion, you’d cer- is, of course, “When will it start?” tainly hope so). Access to cheap week- =⇒ The TTA’s responses to ques- The TTA says that ultimately it’s up to end fares will be made easier, and the tions following the meeting are on our Public Transport Minister Myki cards are likely to be more reli- web site: www.ptua.org.au/2009/ to give the green-light to switch the sys- able than Metcards, especially for peri- 10/06/myki-coming-to-melb.

Tram cancelled? written into the Fares and Ticketing those who travelled 3–4 days a week. Manual issued for Myki. And on weekends, a periodical ticket Buy another ticket provided free travel in all zones for In another entry for the ‘Worse is Periodicals two adults and up to four children— Better’ file, Myki threatens to in- an enlightened policy that recognised crease costs for passengers when left for dead that weekend travel is more family- services are late or cancelled. oriented than weekday travel, but buy- It’s official: the all-zone weekend An important feature of our two-hour ing tickets for every family member is travel privilege attached to period- fares is that the ticket remains valid a deterrent to using public transport, at ical tickets will be withdrawn with so long as your final journey com- a time when public transport is barely the introduction of Myki. mences before the two-hour period ex- faster than car travel. The PTUA has long maintained that pires. Under the current system, this With the very last of these entitlements a fair and effective ticketing system extends to the case where the service to go, the notion of a weekly ticket should encourage the use of periodical arrives late or is cancelled: as long as is fatally wounded, while the value of tickets. These are good for the opera- you got to the stop or station before the other periodical tickets has eroded to tor because they are simple to admin- expiry time, there is no penalty. the point where travellers have little ister and provide an advance revenue However, the government has now in- in the way of a positive incentive to stream, good for passengers because formed us that the Myki system isn’t leave the car at home more often. Con- they provide unlimited travel with a clever enough to make this provision cession card holders are particularly single transaction, and good for the en- work on trams and buses (train stations worse off, since there is no concession vironment because they provide an in- have gates that register arrival time). on the new $3.00 weekend cap. centive for regular use of public trans- As a result, if a tram or bus is sched- The government has attempted to port in preference to private cars. uled to depart before the expiry time defend these changes on grounds of Until the mid-1990s, Melbourne trav- on a two-hour ticket, but gets delayed ‘fairness and consistency’. But they ellers had incentives to use periodi- beyond that time, passengers will be li- are a slap in the face to passengers, cal tickets similar to those that are able for an additional fare. who are entitled to expect that a sys- now promoted in Europe. Sizeable This new rule, which penalises pas- tem costing the state over $1.3 bil- discounts meant that weekly, monthly sengers twice for faulty service—once lion will not leave them worse off. and yearly tickets were attractive not for being delayed and again for being The PTUA will be making its oppo- only to full-time workers but also to charged an additional fare—has been sition known at every opportunity.

PTUA News—December 2009—Page 5 Geelong branch report Unfortunately, Stage 1 of the $80 mil- new routes serving the Grovedale area, We must thank Community Services lion Geelong bus revamp has had a trou- so it was decided last week that most Minister and MP for Bellarine, Lisa bled start. While some of the new, of them will no longer run through to Neville, for helping to overcome the dif- simplified routes seem to have worked Geelong station, that innovation having ficulty we’ve had in getting information well (despite no general increase in fre- only lasted two months. from the Department of Transport about quency and even some reduction), two exactly what infrastructure and service alterations have had to be made just It’s good to see that the quality of pas- pattern is to be provided for Geelong since September. senger information provided, both gen- travellers on the Regional Rail Link. Buses on the new Route 14 through erally and at each bus stop on the new After her intervention, we have been Grovedale and Waurn Ponds were un- routes, has been significantly improved. able to arrange a meeting on this, with a able to keep to the timetable from the However it does seem that some of the senior planner in the DoT. first day, and the adverse effects flowed planning for the new routes and times The PTUA Geelong Branch meets through to other routes. A rewrite of has been deficient, and that doesn’t monthly in Geelong city; see Page that timetable after a month didn’t solve bode well for the second stage of the 2 for details. Paul Westcott is the all the time-keeping problems with the changes due next year. branch convenor.

Attention: Frankston and Mornington Peninsula members Despite having no Federal funds for cent bus review of the region. But a scandalous 75 minute frequency on its ‘’, the State Gov- despite acknowledging public demands weekends, yet even so is regularly over- ernment has announced its intention to both for increased service frequencies crowded. If any of the thousands of reg- proceed regardless, driving a motorway and for an east-west service between ular visitors to the southern Peninsula through precious native wildlife habi- Mornington and Hastings, the review were to attempt using public transport, tat and historic homesteads, in order has recommended neither. Instead, a this is the bus they would be dependent to further entrench car dependence in couple more hourly bus services will on. Would any sane car owner choose south-east Melbourne and for visitors to be added, on the tacit assumption that public transport in this situation? the Peninsula. With overall car traffic public transport is a charity service for The push for the Peninsula Link to- volumes static or falling in Melbourne those who cannot drive cars, rather than gether with the neglect of bus ser- since 2005, the road has little justifica- an environmentally friendly alternative vices is just one example of how the tion other than to fill the coffers of the increasingly desired by those with cars. Victorian Transport Plan is working EastLink consortium, who have been to increase the share of car travel at disappointed at traffic levels so far. For the over 50,000 residents of bayside the expense of public transport. We towns from Safety Beach to Portsea— are keen to get in contact with PTUA Meanwhile, virtually nothing is being many on low to middle incomes—the members in this area to give this issue done to remedy the hopeless situation backbone of the public transport sys- the prominence it requires. for public transport in Frankston and on tem is the route 788 bus from Frankston the Peninsula. We might have hoped to Portsea. This runs at a hopeless =⇒ Keen to help? Please email for some modest progress in the re- 45 minute frequency on weekdays, and [email protected]

In brief. . . [email protected]. at 1:20. There’s some irony in the fact that Connex’s last scheduled Mel- New operators Last train was a bus bourne service was a substitute bus. As we went to press, trains and trams Connex and the media have accurately were being handed over to new op- reported that the last Connex train to Station guards erators Metro Trains Melbourne and run in Melbourne was the Pakenham The PTUA is cautiously supporting the KDR. While we don’t expect much service arriving at 1:15 on Monday State Opposition’s plan for Protective to change other than the signs (see morning. But the last Connex ser- Service staff to be deployed on Victo- last issue), we would be interested to vice to arrive at its destination was of- rian railway stations. Our position re- hear your experiences of new opera- ficially the Werribee service—replaced mains that (friendly) staff be available tors doing things differently—for bet- with a bus due to work at Laver- on all stations not only to maintain se- ter or worse. Email your stories to ton station, and arriving at Werribee curity but also to assist passengers.

PTUA News—December 2009—Page 6 PTUA and the Henry Tax Review

As this newsletter goes to print, the economy more broadly. The analysis costs of forced car ownership resulting Henry Review of Australia’s Future also pointed to the potential for shift- from inadequate public transport. The Tax system will be putting the finish- ing existing charges such as registra- PTUA therefore urges governments to ing touches on its report to federal tion and insurance to a distance basis direct revenue from such charges to treasurer Wayne Swan. rather than the annual basis which cur- improving public transport and to pro- The PTUA lodged two formal submis- rently disadvantages people who use viding targetted tax/transfer relief to sions with the Review. We pointed out their vehicle less than average and vulnerable groups (not to indiscrimi- that taxes on motor vehicles and fuel in cause below-average congestion, pol- nate fuel tax cuts that mainly benefit Australia are relatively low compared lution and accident costs in the pro- higher income households). to many countries, and they fall well cess. The federal government’s response to short of the ‘social costs’—such as pol- While welcoming this analysis, the the Henry Review is expected some- lution, health costs and extensive land PTUA pointed out that revenue from time in 2010. We hope that both use—that road users impose on the rest transport tax reform must not be squan- federal and state governments respond of society. dered on continued road expansion that correctly to the looming challenges of An analysis of transport taxes com- inevitably locks in car dependence, but peak oil and climate change and imple- missioned by the Review found that instead be directed to improving trans- ment a package of reforms that reduce the economically optimal level for fuel port alternatives. Imposing road user reliance on private motorised transport. tax is probably much higher than cur- charges on motorists without also im- Their response will be a key test of rent levels and that transport tax re- proving public transport services could their true level of commitment to re- form could boost productivity in the be a major financial burden on those form and sustainability. Australian transport sector and the households already facing the high

Public transport is good for your health: Movember at the PTUA

PTUA committee member Jason King participated in Movember—growing a Calling all moustache to raise money for the volunteers Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Be- yondBlue depression initiative. The PTUA is always in need of vol- unteers to help out in our office at Ross House. Are you able to spare Here he has taken his rather impressive a couple of hours around lunchtime moustache to the PTUA office. (That’s one day each week, to provide gen- Geelong Branch Convenor Paul West- eral office support such as answer- cott in the background, trying to stay ing a few phone calls and emails? out of the photo.) We provide basic training to as- sist people with answering queries. =⇒ au.movember.com/mospace/ Please contact [email protected]. 85213/ au to discuss further.

Copy deadline for the next PTUA News is 5 February 2010. Newsletter contributors: Tony Morton, Daniel Bowen, Paul Westcott and Jason ‘Mo’ King. Printed on recycled paper by Flash Print, Collingwood. Our thanks to Margaret Pullar and the dedicated mailout team.

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