Public Transport Users Association
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Volunteer run not-for-profit advocating for better public transport in Victoria, Australia. Visit our website to join for as little as $50 a year or contact us.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined November 2008
Changing platforms? You can find us on Bluesky, Threads, Facebook and elsewhere
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Jeff Kennett on Melbourne underground rail: 2012 vs 2025
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Housing near public transport is a great idea, but it can only work with good quality PT services. Thanks to the Vic Greens for highlighting our recent report - which finds many local bus routes around planned activity centres need timetable upgrades.🚌🚏 #MoreServicesNow
Frequency is freedom. For people to have a genuine alternative to driving, they need public transport that will take them where they want to go, at every time of day and on every day of the week. It’s time Labor got serious about bus reform and providing trains at off-peak times
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More passengers using V/Line is great to see. But crowding has become a problem on many services, and the State Government must continue to deliver more train services and capacity to ensure the network keeps up with growth. Watch the video from WIN News:
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🎂Happy 166th birthday to Sunbury station, opened 10th February 1859! Later this year the line will connect to the Metro tunnel. More frequent services all day every day, on this line and on connecting lines are critical to make Melbourne's rail network so much more useable.
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Bulleen to Fairfield 8:30am Sunday: Most direct is 45 mins, including 28 mins waiting for a train connection Or 41 mins via a long indirect route. This is just one example of many. Infrequent services make getting around Melbourne difficult on weekends. #TimeWastingTimetables
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We're pleased to have joined with other advocacy groups around Australia to work together in calling for more Federal investment in public transport, and better interstate co-ordination, including in cross-border areas such as Wodonga/Albury.
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🚉🕔🕠🕕 Iconic but outdated - the beloved clocks at Flinders Street Station should not just be a heritage item, they should provide accurate information for passengers. So why not update them to show the current line names?
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'When it comes to transport, the saying goes “we get what we build” – so if we build more roads, we get more people driving. If we build paths, we get more people walking and cycling short journeys and our roads are less congested.'
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Tomorrow 6pm! Werribee by-election transport forum. Ask the candidates how they plan to support better public transport in the area.🚌🚉 Details:
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2006: XBox 360🕹️ and Happy Feet🐧 released, Adam Goodes won the Brownlow🏈, and on 3rd Feb, the first VLocity trains ran on the Geelong line.🎉 19+ years later they're still making VLocities. They've served us well, but it's time to look for a more modern design of train🚄⚡️
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Travelling on a Sunday morning? In Melbourne you'll wait up to 3 times as long for a train as in Sydney or Perth. #MoreServicesNow #TimeWastingTimetables
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PTUA members and supporters! Check your email for the monthly campaign update for January.📧 Not a member? Please consider joining as a member or as a free supporter, to get our updates, and to help support our work for better public transport.
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May the wait for your Grouprollmachine be as short as possible 🚉🚌🚋🙂
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Options to pay your fare with a bank card will make it much easier to hop onto public transport, especially for new and occasional users. Hopefully the trial in Wangaratta helps the Myki system move towards this, but it seems like progress is slow.
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It's International Clean Energy Day🌞🌬️⚡️ Metro trains, trams and buses are moving towards zero emissions. Would be great to see similar progress for V/Line. And all public transport helps cut emissions, air pollution and traffic compared to driving.
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Waits of 40 minutes between trains on Sunday mornings on about half the #Melbourne Metro network means it's hard to make connections, and even difficult to arrive to an event on time - not too early, not too late. #MoreServicesNow #TimeWastingTimetables [video repost]
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Some cities have made great progress on air quality and cutting traffic, by returning space from cars to people.❤️ Melbourne's motorway projects (two underway now) promise a traffic-free utopia but instead generate even more traffic.🖤 📷via Brent Toderian / Citylink ad, 1995
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🎂🚇Happy birthday to the City Loop, stage 1 opened 44 years ago today! The direction changes on two of the four Loop tunnels can be confusing↪️↩️😕 We'd like to see more consistency, but in the meantime, check our diagrams for help navigating it!
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If you're in Melbourne's west, come along to our Werribee By-election forum, and show your support for better local public transport options.
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