Action for Public Transport (N.S.W.)

Kindred organisations and journals, especially around Sydney

• Eco-Transit Sydney, Post Office Box 630, Milson's Point 1565.
• Rail: Back on Track - rail issues in Queensland
• Community Action for Sustainable Transport operating around Brisbane.
• RAIL Back On Track is a web-based community group that advocates for sustainable transport solutions mainly rail and advocates strongly for rail commuters, and at times other public transport commuters.
• Open the Road, pressing for opening of a road connecting Woronora Heights with Woronora, which would permit greatly improved bus services west and south of Sutherland.
• Save Our Rail NSW Inc., pressing for retention and improvement of the railway between Broadmeadow and Newcastle.
• Link-Up, 5th floor, 362 Kent Street, Sydney.
• STEP Inc. (formerly South Turramurra Environment Protection), which opposes the proposed F3-M2 road link.
• Total Environment Centre, 2nd floor, 362 Kent Street, Sydney.
• The Rail Now campaign for the western suburbs.
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute - Todd Litman's base in British Columbia
• Friends of the Northern Railway, who are yet again fighting to save railway services to Armidale.
• Trains on Our Tracks, who are campaigning for a new rail service between Casino and Murwillumbah and who would also like the XPT service restored.
• Railway Technical Society of Australasia
• Tourism and Transport Forum, the peak industry group for the tourism, transport and infrastructure sectors.
• http://www.urbantripper.org.au/, intended to encourage young Victorians to use public transport.
• Smog Busters
• The peripatetic Nick Possum of Werrong Investigations, who has a particular proficiency in probing the corruption that pervades transport infrastructure
• Urban Environment Coalition
• Public Transport Users' Association, Melbourne. Their site has an interesting section dedicated to refuting myths and misconceptions in public transport.
• Sustainable Transport Coalition of Western Australia
• People for Public Transport (S.A.) Inc.
• Transit Australia magazine.
• Australian Railway Digest, which sometimes publishes articles about metropolitan transport. Stop Hummers coming to Australia -->
• Light Rail Now (U.S.A.)
• Surface Transportation Policy Project (U.S.A.)
• National Association of Railroad Passengers (U.S.A.)
• NYPIRG's Straphangers' Campaign
• American Public Transit Association
• Passenger Focus - UK rail passenger watchdog
• European Passengers' Federation
• Pro-Bahn - public transport passengers in Germany
• Friends of the Earth, London
• SUSTRAN Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia and the Pacific.
• Transport 2000, London. Also see http://www.sardineman.org.uk/, campaigning for better train journeys.
• Transport 2000 Canada, Ottawa.
• The Center for Transportation Excellence, a non-partisan policy research center created to serve the needs of communities and transportation organizations nationwide. The purpose of the center and its website is to provide research materials, strategies and other forms of support on the benefits of public transportation.
• Transit Users' Group, Vancouver
• Rocket Riders transit advocacy Toronto
• Association of Transit Consumers, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
• Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (U.S.A.).
• Canadians for Reliable and Safe Highways.
• Some transport-related links
• Energy section of the World Resources Institute site.
• Residents Against Polluting Stacks (RAPS) who oppose motorway exhaust stacks discharging huge amounts of polluted air over nearby residents
• Discourage unsafe speeding on local streets.
• Bicycle New South Wales.
• Critical Mass - a bicycle users' group who ride around inner suburbs on the last Friday evening of each month.
• The Marrickville Tunnel Action Group.
• Pedestrian Council of Australia.
• Railserve's links to various pages about Australian passenger rail services.
• Australasian Bus and Coach

Public policy-making organisations

• NSW Department of Transport now properly known as the
• NSW Transport Co-ordination Authority
• Travelsmart incorporating the Commonwealth government and all state governments except Tasmania and NSW.
• Commonwealth Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics
• New MetroRail, which is responsible for doubling Perth's rail network - 15 new stations, and 163 kilometres of new track
• The National Transport Commission, which replaced the National Road Transport Commission in February 2004.
• The official Tcard site
• The NSW Independent Transport Safety and Reliability Regulator

The Sydney public transport information service

• 131500

Examples of public transport information

• Laborotech who have installed the Nomad system in Adelaide. Nomad makes suitably-featured mobile phones able to download and hold timetables for participating transport services.
• http://www.bristollegiblecity.info
• How to get to Bondi Beach

Possible innovations for public transport

• Austrans

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