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ZH836301
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:20 pm
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| Quote: | Cat and Mouse Bus Blockade
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A SMALL band of protestors stopped traffic on Sunday morning in a two-street bus blockade in Yarraville.
A group of about 13 men, women and children lined Yarraville’s Canterbury St at 11am to block the 409 Yarraville-to-West Footscray bus route to rally against the service upgrades that were introduced on 30 June.
The protestors held the bus up for about 10 minutes before it reversed out on to Fehon St.
During the hold-up, the 432 Newport-to-Paisley bus entered the street three times and reversed out on to Birmingham St or turned into Bunninyong St to avoid the protest.
The 432 was later stopped by the protestors on the corner of Anderson and Fehon streets.
The blockade caused a traffic pile-up of about eight cars.
One disgruntled motorist got out of the car and yelled at the protestors.
The protestors, made up mostly of residents from Canterbury St, want the State Government to reverse the changes made from the Hobson’s Bay, Maribyrnong and Moonee Valley bus service review.
From 30 June, hours of operation were extended to 6am-9am on weekdays and 8am-9am on weekends and public holidays.
Six services were also rerouted and one new service was introduced.
Canterbury St resident Catrina Witham said the new services were an unnecessary and environmentally unsustainable option for the area.
“The streets are very narrow with cars parked either side, and the buses just disregard anything – they don’t give way,” Ms Witham said.
“You’ll find that one will enter our street from one end to get to the bus stop, the other one will leave the bus stop, which means that they’re blocked and one has to reverse.
“The other day we had 20 buses for 25 passengers.”
Ms Witham is one of many annoyed residents who say that neither the State Government nor Maribyrnong City Council consulted residents before the changes were introduced.
Ms Witham and her fellow protestors made their presence known at last week’s council meeting, where they bombarded councillor’s with questions during public question time.
Transport manager Ian Butterworth told the residents that the council had written to the Department of Transport (DoT) to request a consultation period with residents, and to enquire about smaller, more energy efficient buses.
The council also advised the residents to contact their local MPs. Ms Witham said the group was trying to organise a meeting with the MPs.
“I kind of expected that would be the council’s reaction, although my attitude is, they did approve it, (but) they were saying to us it had nothing to do with them,” she said.
But DoT spokesperson Christopher Veraa said community consultation was a central part of the bus review.
He said public workshops were held in each municipality, while a public submission process was promoted in local newspapers and on board buses.
Maribyrnong City Council also had extensive input.
“Representatives of Maribyrnong City Council attended two separate bus review workshops, (they) had a representative on the bus review working committee, (they) made submissions to the review process and received personalized briefings from the DOT on the bus review recommendations,” Mr Veraa said. |
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route14
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:52 am
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Off! They deserve nothing.
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Edith
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:33 am
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I bet the people complaining about the buses are not the users of the service, so you cannot punish them by removing the service. They do have a point about matching the bus size to the demand, though. Perhaps the Council could put a clearway down the street and remove the parking that is blocking the buses. 
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trolleybusracer
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:24 am
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| ZH836301 wrote: | | Quote: |
Canterbury St resident Catrina Witham said the new services were an unnecessary and environmentally unsustainable option for the area.
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Hows that? Sita has new euro 5 buses ! less emissions that their toorak tractors put out
Just cause sita dont roster specific buses to specifc routes means nothing
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route14
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:17 am
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| Edith wrote: | | I bet the people complaining about the buses are not the users of the service, so you cannot punish them by removing the service. They do have a point about matching the bus size to the demand, though. Perhaps the Council could put a clearway down the street and remove the parking that is blocking the buses. |
I don't mean to put buses off, I mean the protestors. They are simply abusing freedom of speech.
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dthead
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:20 am
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Wait a minute,
are they protesting that they got more services, more buses at more times ?
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Gwiwer
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 11:54 am
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They are fully financial members of NIMBY.
We might use a bus now and again if we must but it isn't allowed to come down our street.
If the actual street is unusually narrow (and Yarraville is an older suburb with a few of those) then either an alterntive routing could be found or perhaps buses operate one way on one street and return by another route.
I don't have first-hand knowledge of those streets to be able to make a more positive suggestion.
As an aside it was a little disappointing to see that after the Hobsons Bay bus service review some upgraded services STILL run at odd headways which don't match train times and are impossible to memorise. In other areas a regular headway has typically been brought in so that buses which might have run at say 35 - 50 minute irregular intervals are then timed evenly every 30 minutes. That has not been the case with every reviewed service this time around.
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comeng301M
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:28 am
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F*** em just run the bastards over. They shouldn't even be there
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