EcoTransit Sydney has taken the need to Stop the Metro Madness to the streets and railway network. This paper is being handed out from Newcastle to areas of the South Coast. Download an electronic copy of the most important news you're going to see in public transport.

http://ecotransit.org.au/ets/files/ETN_0909_CBDMetro.pdf (1.6MB PDF)

See the latest updates on the Metro Madness Blog!

Send a Metro Madness e-card to friends, family and your pick of the pollies!

View the YouTube video of the protest at Macquarie Street on the 9th of September 2009

Send a message to the Premier and the Minister for Transport: Don't Rip Up Our Rail!

We are indebted to Russell Edwards for these probing questions.

Q1. Do you have links with the major political parties? (including the Greens).

EcoTransit has no links with any political party. We lobby all political parties, and the projects and policies advocated by us are available to be adopted by any party. In the last local government elections, candidates from across the political spectrum supported the extension of light rail to Dulwich Hill.

(as printed in Crikey.com on Thursday, 26 March 2009)
Gavin Gatenby, co-convenor of public transport advocacy group EcoTransit Sydney, writes:

NSW Premier Nathan Rees has his hand out for billions in federal funding for Sydney public transport projects, but the gurus at Infrastructure Australia should be asking some hard questions because something seems terribly wrong with the cost of rail construction in NSW.

Sydney is crying out for more public transport capacity and the Rozelle goods line is just sitting there, waiting to be used. If the NSW Government consented to extension of the current light rail service to Dulwich Hill, the communities of the inner west would get an additional six kilometres of fast, reliable, public transport that’s immune to soaring petrol prices and never gets stuck in traffic. Everyone else would get the benefit of the extra road-space, and trains, train stations, and buses that are less like sardine tins!

Like a blinding flash, came the proposal for a North West Metro line...the question is will it get built?

What is oil scarcity and pricing volatility going to do to the way that we picture our future? Could this be an opportunity rather than a reason to despair?

Modes are transport planner speak for 'types' of transport. Trains are one mode, buses are another, private cars are also a mode of transport (but one of the least efficient in most cases).

Here is our current document. It is constantly under review and due for a brush up quite shortly.

These documents were collated by the groups involved in the campaign. We are indebted to the NSW Greens for their assistance in allowing several of these documents to see the light of day!

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M4 East Information Leaflet
This leaflet was distributed in the affected suburbs during mid-1994.
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