Calls to revitalise Melbourne’s public transport patronage

Melbourne’s public transport patronage still has not returned to pre-COVID levels sparking questions on how to get Melburnians back on trains, trams and bus.

Senior lecturer in Transport Planning at Melbourne University, Dr John Stone, says Melbourne needs to make public transport work.

“We are a public transport city, if we just go back a step and think about what transport is for, it’s so we can all get to the things we value in this city … if we try to go back to being a car-only city, then it’d be chaos,” he told Shane McInnes, filling in for Tony Moclair.

Press PLAY to hear some of the suggestions to bring back the numbers 

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