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Welcome to the Metropolitan Transport Forum

MTF Executive for 2019

The MTF Officer Bearers and Executive for 2019 (as elected at the February meeting) are as follows:

Office bearers

Chair: Cr Martin Zakharov (City of Maribyrnong)

Deputy Chair: Cr Jonathan Marsden (City of Hobsons Bay)

Treasurer: Cr. Jackie Fristacky (City of Yarra)

Secretary: Paul Hamilton (City of Casey)

General committee

Cr Tom Melican (City of Banyule)

Cr Anna Chen (City of Manningham)

Cr Katherine Copsey (City of Port Phillip)

Cr Stuart James(City of Monash)

The MTF welcomes Councillors Anna Chen, Katherine Copsey and Stuart James, and thanks retiring members Cr Paul McLeish, Cr Andrea Surace and Clare Davey. Observers Cr Clarke Martin and Jane Waldock also made a valuable contribution.

Meetings in 2019 - dates are as follows

Wednesday 6th February: Jeroen Weimar, Public Transport Victoria (PTV)
Wednesday 6th March: Paul Hamilton, City of Casey, innovative transport graphics and analytics
Wednesday 3rd April: Daniel Bowen, Public Transport Users Association (PTUA)
Wednesday 1st May: Bus advocacy, Shire of Mornington Peninsula, plus on-demand bus XEMO
Wednesday 4th June: City of Melbourne transport strategy (draft in consultation phase)
Wednesday 3rd July: Minister for Public Transport Melissa Horne
Wednesday 1st August: North East Link busway, and Infrastructure Victoria on buses
Wednesday 4th September: AGM followed by Lord Mayor, Sally Capp
Wednesday 2nd October: meeting cancelled due to bus forum
Wednesday 6th November: Paul Younis, Secretary, newly formed Department of Transport
Wednesday 4th December: to be confirmed

For meeting record follow link or see Monthly Meeting page

Advocacy 2019 - Event MTF Loves Buses

A strategy workshop confirmed bus and improving bus patronage as a priority for 2019, and a bus forum MTF loves buses was held October 2019 exploring the role and opportunities for local governments to improve bus services in their municipalities. The 60+ attendance from local governments heard from

Department of Transport
MTCagney Consulting (on Brisbane busways)
Infrastructure Victoria (immediate actions to tackle congestion)
Professor Graham Currie (what councils can do to improve buses)
RACV (journey planner app arevo)
Philip Mallis, Darebin (using bus data)
Movement & Place Consulting (local bus priority)
Phillip Boyle & Associates (Footscray Station bus interchange)

Advocacy 2018 - MTF transport forums

The pre-election Council-based transport forums have become a regular event for the MTF, and have been organised in the lead-up to the 2010, 2014 and now 2018 state elections to enable the community to debate local transport issues with election candidates. In 2018 14 forums were held by member councils in metropolitan Melbourne. They were organised by Greg Day, Edunity, and all proceedings can be found at www.transportforum.org.a u.

Advocacy 2017 - MTF event Bus Matters

As a lead event for the MTF bus advocacy program for 2017/2018 the MTF hosted a forum on Tuesday 31st October 2017 focussing on what can be done to help buses play a greater role in the local transport mix. An interesting line up of speakers provided valuable insight into the bus sector as follows:

Professor Graham Currie, Monash University,
Dr Chris Lowe, Bus Association of Victoria
Rene Lalabande, Transdev (international transport operator managing a large sector of Melbourne's buses)
Dr Elliot Fishman, Institute of Sensible Transport
David Silvester, Chris Loader, Transport for Victoria

See all presentations

A workshop organised by Phillip Boyle and Associates (PBA) followed in the afternoon working through the many issues to do with buses and concentrating into some common themes of importance to all member councils. These will be carried on for future advocacy.

In 2018 bus advocacy has been maintained as an underfunded and much needed element of the public transport system, which despite a number of major rail projects, is still the only public transport option for much of Melbourne. See www.billions4buses.melbourne for ongoing bus advocacy.

General Background

The Metropolitan Transport Forum (MTF) is an advocacy group comprising members from Melbourne metropolitan local government, associate members representing transport companies, and participants from the State Government and environment groups.

The MTF endeavours to promote effective, efficient and equitable transport in metropolitan Melbourne and improved transport choices by

providing a forum for debate among members of the transport sector
encouraging information sharing among member local governments
representing local government viewpoint to decision makers
fostering and sponsoring research on occasion
seeking to influence transport policy and project implementation in the broader metropolitan interest
working with local government counterparts
enabling networking and collaboration between local and state government
disseminating information on transport topics.

The MTF holds a regular monthly meeting on the first Wednesday of the month which includes a presentation on a transport topic of interest and relevance to local governments. Meetings are open to all, please contact mtf@ if interested to attend.