The premier has been making many budget-related public transport announcements lately. Saturday's was about PSOs, Sunday's about free travel and fare cuts, and today's announcing a new X'Trapolis order and frequency boosts for the hitherto neglected Burnley and Clifton Hill groups of lines (plus Shepparton). After so many years of concentrating on infrastructure construction and, more recently, various ways of cutting or removing fares, the state government's revived interest in service matters is both refreshing and necessary. This is on several grounds including changing travel patterns, the desirability of maximising gain from investments in infrastructure and making our housing activity centres work. More public transport service made sense even before the current fuel crisis. This government's record on regional rail infrastructure and service has been strong while on metropolitan rail it is unbalanced with infrastructure favoured over service rather than a reasonable balance…
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