Cr Janet Rice City of Maribyrnong Chair Metropolitan Transport Forum Vice President VLGA

1. Achievable, Affordable, Essential Sustainable transport for Melbourne Cr Janet Rice City of Maribyrnong Chair Metropolitan Transport Forum Vice President VLGA

2. Local government’s role • The reality of climate change • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport • Priority actions for Melbourne • So what does this mean about the need for new road infrastructure?

3. Local government’s transport roles • Provider of transport infrastructure – roads, bike paths, footpaths, urban environments • Facilitator of sustainable and equitable transport • Land use planner – statutory and strategic • Parking provider, planner and regulator • advocate

4. Do we want? • six metre rises in sea levels? • massive extinctions? • billions of deaths? • How about a 50-50 chance of keeping global temperatures below a 2°warming? • Then we need to reduce emissions globally by 60% by 2030. • This means reducing emissions in Australia by 80-90%.

7. Transport emissions

9. How to reduce transport ghg emissions • ‘cleaner car-use’ • Fewer and shorter trips • Physical changes • Reduced need to travel • reduced car-trips

10. Cleaner car use • Fuel efficiency has been constant over last 40 years - to decrease will require strict regulation and changes to industry policy • Fuel substitution – long timelines, and unlikely that any fuel will support current levels of travel

11. Fewer and shorter trips Physical changes to reduce car trips • Urban consolidation has potentialto reduce trip numbers and length • But it needs excellent public transport, between activity centres, and excellent walking and cycling facilities • However current densities are high enough to support economically viable public transport services • And changing densities is a long term project

12. Fewer and shorter trips (cont) Reduced need to travel • Important but long term • Starting from a low base

13. Many fewer car trips • More trips by public transport • More trips by bicycles • More walking

14. Five priorities for Melbourne • Co-ordinated policy approach • Modern urban public transport network and services • Management and governance of public transport so that the design and operation of the network is managed in an integrated, accountable and transparent way

15. Five priorities for Melbourne (cont) • Urban development that is focussed and planned around sustainable transport modes • Freight movement systems that are based on long term sustainability

16. 1 Co-ordinated policy approach The kit bag

17. 2 Modern public transport network and services • Increased rail capacity • Rail extensions and new stations • Connection of activity centres with train, tram or bus with minimum 10 minute frequency • Upgraded suburban bus services and frequency – every 15 minutes, 7 days a week

19. Meeting Our Transport Challenges • ‘The rail system remains the backbone of the PPTN because it is best suited to high volumes and peak demands for radial travel’ • ‘Unconstrained growth in road travel is unsustainable and the provision of attractive and well patronised public transport alternatives is critical to Melbourne’s future liveability’

20. anunlinked collection of low-frequency routes (a non-network) The full network effect Some high-frequency services

21. 3 Management and governance so that the design and operation of the network is managed in an integrated, accountable and transparent way If it's good enough for VicRoads

23. 4. Urban development focussed and planned around sustainable transport modes

24. 4. (cont) That means: • Public transport improvements • Pedestrianisation • Improvements in cycling facilities • More room on roads for public transport, walking and cycling • Less parking and more expensive parking • Vibrant compact activity centres

25. 5. Freight movement systems based on long term sustainability Instead of

26. So what does this mean about the need for major new road infrastructure?

27. The good news Average public transport mode share = 56%!!!

28. The potential good news Average public transport mode share = 30%

29. These are the trips we really are concerned about.Why not aim to increase the share of these trips on pt from 30% to 60%?

30. Make them competitive with car trips. • Increase train frequency and speed • Increase tram speed • Increase cost of parking • Decrease availability of parking • Reduce other financial incentives to drive (eg company cars with free petrol and free parking) • Don’t make it easier to drive by building more roads!!

31. So what if we achieved a 60% public transport mode share for inner city trips? • Let’s assume the Western Transport Alliance calculated growth rate of 2.7% • It would take 17 years of this growth before the number of trips returned to today’s levels

32. On top of that… • If 30% of port freight was on rail and the numbers of containers per truck journey was increased from 1.6 to 2.0…. reduction in port truck numbers by 44%. This would account for all predicted port freight growth for at least 10 years

33. On top of that… • Growth in employment in Footscray, Werribee, and other Principal Activity Centres an estimated 14% drop in vehicle kilometres travelled • Higher vehicle occupancies if HOV lanes were introduced • More tele-commuting • Less travel as fuel prices continue to increase

34. Can we fix it?Yes we can!

35. It comes down to leadership and political will