UN 254: Melbourne's worst 10 public transport black holes

Executive Summary: Large clusters of Melbourne suburbs have only sparse public transport services. These are identified here. The good news is that many are fixable, in some cases without needing more trains and buses. All it needs is political will to embrace value for money service-oriented transport priorities. Melbourne is a city of haves and have nots when it comes to public transport. The inner suburbs have frequent trams while the typical outer suburban bus only comes every 40 minutes. Bus networks and timetables in many areas have been unreformed for years as governments instead prioritised money-hungry poor value Big Build projects. Trains are about half and half with some lines getting great service and others two, three or even four times the waits. The result is that Melbourne ties with Brisbane as being the Australian capital with the least equal public transport service provision across suburbs. And, not even the Metro Tunnel related train timetables, positive though…

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