12 years since 2008's Victorian Transport Summit

Trains were under pressure from rapid patronage growth and bucking infrastructure in 2008. And an election loomed two years away. Today is 12 years since the Victorian Transport Summit. Here is some material put together at the time. 

A little later the Victorian Transport Plan came out. 

You might enjoy these well-regarded books on transport topics

Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit Steven Higashide 

The Public City: Essays in honour of Paul Mees Gleeson & Beza

A Political Economy of Access: Infrastructure, Networks, Cities, Institutions (Access Quintet Book 4) David Levinson

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives Jarrett Walker

Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age Paul Mees

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