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Keep Melbourne Liveable - Trains not Tollways

The old parties have a plan to choke Melbourne with a proposed tollway stretching from Melbourne's East to West. The Greens are siding with the community who want to see less congestion and pollution which means greater investment in public transport infrastructure.

The Victorian Government has sidelined plans for a revamped Melbourne Metro and allocated $294 million in the Budget to build the East West Tollway.

This follows a promise by Tony Abbott to put up $1.5 billion to push this tollway through our community.

Please sign up to our campaign to stop the East West Tollway and get a ‘Trains not Tolls' triangle for your window.

Despite these terrible decisions, we should be heartened by the impact our community campaign has had, with the Premier dropping plans to put the tollway above ground.

However a tunnel will still be a disaster for inner Melbourne and Royal Park with years of construction and permanent on and off ramps and polluting towers through our neighbourhoods.

Get a ‘Trains not Tolls' triangle for your front window by registering here: http://www.adambandt.com/trains_not_tolls

We want to make clear this fight is not over. The tollway will need billions more in funding to be built and its future is not certain.

Adam and the Greens will fight this tooth and nail using our numbers in Parliament to stop any attempt by Tony Abbott to ruin our community. We will not forget that Labor Premier John Brumby first proposed this tollway and we will hold Labor to account if they try and join Tony Abbott in funding the tunnel.

The future for this city is clean, fast, efficient public transport.

East-West Tollway

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With most of the incoming traffic heading into the city, building a rail line down the Eastern Freeway then out to Doncaster is the most urgently needed reform. Without that, many people in the eastern  suburbs have no way of getting to work by public transport, so they drive down the Eastern Freeway, with more than 60,000 vehicles coming into our area in the morning peak period. The area down the Eastern Freeway was always meant for a train line. Tens of thousands of people pass through Clifton Hill station every morning and there's no reason a Doncaster line couldn't bring the same traffic into the city. Building the Doncaster rail line would alleviate congestion and start to turn Melbourne into a world-class public transport city. The current Baillieu government should build a Doncaster line as a priority and that's where the Greens want to see federal infrastructure dollars being spent.

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