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A NEW-LOOK Yarraville Festival has been unveiled. The festival will go from being a one-day festival to a week-long calendar of events, including an outdoor movie night, a comedy night, fashion parade, teddy bear’s picnic, street art works and meet the author dinner. Councillor Martin Zakharov said the Yarraville Festival Committee was also looking into the new craze of Lego bombing, where holes in walls are filled in with Lego. “We want it to be a whole week of Yarraville, rather than just one day,” he said. Students from Dance Habit in West Footscray, pictured, Picture: DAMJAN JANEVSKI helped launch the event. 108930
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A TRANSPORT advocacy group believes an upgraded, integrated public transport system will solve the West’s transport woes. The Transport for Melbourne group also considers the East West Link to be an expensive money pit that will not alleviate traffic congestion. The group will host a public forum at the Maribyrnong City Council town hall this Thursday to discuss Melbourne’s transport crisis, and how it is affecting the West. Forum convenor Roger Taylor, who has spent more than 20 years in the transport industry - including jobs at Victorian Railways, V/Line and the Public Transport Corporation - said the West was deprived of good public transport options. “We need to redesign the bus network, which is absolutely hopeless,” he said. “We need to get our buses, our trams and our trains all running reliably and on time, and once we’ve done that we need to hook them all up, so that they work as an integrated network. “It needs to run like a Swiss watch, like in Zurich, so that people can make connections between a train, tram or bus to get around Melbourne.
“There’s no excuse for trains not to run on time. “Once you do that, everything changes. You need to change their timetables, and it will be a transforming thing. “Even in cases where you’d like to walk or cycle, because there’s so much traffic around it’s not much fun riding either.” Mr Taylor said the West was also “getting belted” with freight issues, and believes a freight plan is urgently needed. He believes the changes can be made within two years and at only a fraction of the cost of the East West Link. “All the infrastructure that we need in Melbourne to make that happen already exists, and it exists on the roads - that’s where your buses and trams work, but they’re absolutely fouled up by traffic congestion, and ... you need priority lanes for buses and trams. “The problem that we have is that it’s a difficult policy to sell because it’s not monumental. One big project doesn’t solve all your problems, but people seem to think it does.” The Transport for Melbourne public forum will be held this Thursday at the Maribyrnong City Council town hall from 6pm. Email rogtay@hotmail.com for more information.
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