10,000 Friends is looking for individuals and community organisations who would like to become a Friend of Greater Sydney.
29 Sep 2011 - Australians reject carbon tax on bus fuel (327.57 KB)
Almost two thirds of Australians don’t want the federal government to include fuel for buses in the carbon tax scheme, the latest quarterly national transport survey from the University of Sydney shows.
While household vehicles will be exempt from the tax, bus operators will have to pay it from 2014. In the September 2011 quarter of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS)-Interfleet Transport Opinion Survey (TOPS) 63 per cent of Australians said fuel for buses should be excluded.
This result is consistent with other responses showing strong support for public transport, ITLS Director Professor David Hensher says. In each of the quarterly surveys to date about half of Australians nominate public transport as the nation’s highest transport priority, twice as many as those who say road improvements are the most pressing transport issue.
“A carbon tax will increase the cost of travelling on buses and, coupled with the exemption for household vehicles, creates a disincentive for people to use public transport. Clearly this creates a distortion at odds with other public policies to increase public transport patronage.”
Professor Hensher says Australians’ confidence in transport in their local area increased slightly on last quarter’s results, due largely to an improvement in confidence in Victoria.
Confidence about transport nationally remained constant, with 48 per cent of respondents saying transport would improve across Australia in the next five years. “We will continue to monitor community confidence each quarter,” Professor Hensher says.
The first national survey to measure transport opinions on a regular basis, TOPS is a reliable indicator of Australians’ ongoing confidence about transport in their local area and transport in Australia.
The ITLS in the University of Sydney Business School provides education and conducts research in transport, logistics and supply chain management. Interfleet Technology is one of the world’s leading rail consultancy groups providing strategic, operational, management and technical services to the international rail industry.
The September 2011 quarterly report is at: http://sydney.edu.au/business/itls/tops.
29 Sep 2011 - Review of UK light rail costs published (560.97 KB)
http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/review-of-uk-light-rail-costs-published.html
20 Sep 2011 - FROGS ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011 (682.50 KB)
The Annual report is now available on the website
14 Sep 2011 - FROGS Financial Report (165.00 KB)
The FROGS audit has been completed and the financial report is now on the website
14 Sep 2011 - HIGH SPEED RAIL SUBMISSION (27.40 KB)
FROGS has made a submission to the Federal Study group and is attached below
Comments welcome
14 Sep 2011 - Shaping Sydney as Liveable City towards 2051.” (1.29 MB)
On August 26 FROGS invited the leading planning and transport experts to a workshop sponsored by the City of Sydney .
The meeting was very successful and a further 2 are planned for this year . Results are attached
Please contac t us if you have comments and contributions
30 May 2011 - MWH Crirical Infrastructure Report 2011 (1.43 MB)
The survey was conducted online by Lonergan Research and permission was kindly given by MWH to display on FROGS website
15 Mar 2011 - SCHOOL SAFETY (1.32 MB)
This is a paper presented at the ROAD SAFETY 2011 in Sydney 8-9 March by FROGS director Ann Turner and will be followed up with a printed paper
11 Mar 2011 - FROGS BOARD MEMBERS and EXECUTIVE (636.00 KB)
FROGS is pleased to announce two new additions to our Board Bob Meyer and Cr John Mc Inerney who have long been FROGS supporters There is an updated list of current Board Members in this section
11 Mar 2011 - NEED MORE BALANCED APPROACH TO TRANSPORT (115.00 KB)
The political focus on rail in the lead-up to next month's state election does not give the people of NSW a high-quality public transport service offering value for money and quicker travel times, says the University of Sydney's Chair in Public Transport. Prof Corrine Mulley
This view is endorsed by FROGS
01 Mar 2011 - NEW BIG IDEAS IN TRANSPORT (283.30 KB)
FROGS has produced a document for discussion on new ideas for Transport in Sydney . Feel free to discuss in our blog
06 Dec 2010 - FROGS Qand A session Parramatta Final Report (424.15 KB)
This is the report of the recent session held at Parramatta Leagues club on 22 NOVEMBER
MANY IMPORTANT ISSUES WERE DISCUSSED AND THIS PAPER REFLECTS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THEM
06 Dec 2010 - FROGS NEW FAST RAIL PLAN (324.41 KB)
This is the latest FROGS rail plan making a revolution in fast travel to Parramatta
26 Nov 2010 - REPORT FROM Q&A FORUM PARRAMATTA BOB GERMAIN (178.66 KB)
This paper by Bob Germain of the RDA describes the urgent issues needed to be addressed in Western Sydney
26 Nov 2010 - REPORT FROM Q&A FORUM PARRAMATTA Ann Turner (429.00 KB)
This was the opening presentation by Ann Turner for the Parramatta Q and A sesion
26 Nov 2010 - REPORT FROM Q&A FORUM PARRAMATTA GRAEME LARCOMBE (27.50 KB)
10 points in 10 minutes
26 Nov 2010 - REPORT FROM Q&A FORUM PARRAMATTA BOB MEYER (665.44 KB)
This is part of a presentation by Bob Meyer of Cox Richardson at the FROGS Q and A workshop given at an earlier workshop
02 May 2010 - Results of discussions at Inner City Forum, (83.00 KB)
The Forum was well attended ans the discussions were lively.
The results indicate a strong need for an integrated land use transport planning strategy and a quantam change in Governance of the state.
22 Apr 2010 - RESULTS OF CITY FORUM 20 April 2010 (172.00 KB)
The interim report prepared by David Brown is attached. We will load the final recommendations up on 28 April
19 Apr 2010 - FROGS REPEATS CALLS FOR SINGLE DECK TRAINS (1.18 MB)
No other city in the world attempts to run their entire metropolitan services with double-deck trains as Sydney does – so either the whole world is wrong or we are.
FROGS is calling for the introduction of modern single-deck metro-style trains on existing tracks. The advantages of single-deck over double-deck are obvious.
02 Dec 2009 - FROGS REVOLUTIONARY NEW RAIL PLAN (509.16 KB)
10000 Friends of Greater Sydney releases Rail plan strategy to take advantage of existing rail infrastructure
For too long, transport plans to reform Sydney’s ailing system have been expensive and impractical. With this mind, The 10,000 Friends of Greater Sydney set itself the challenge of coming up with a plan that the Government could afford and was practical in the short to medium-term.
What we have come up with is a simple idea that has eluded planners for years. The plan is basically this: we will divide the current network into two systems using existing tracks. One track system will operate exclusively as Metro-style while the other will be a double decker system. We will also introduce state-of-the art signalling, which will see more trains per hour and dramatically increase passenger numbers.
Once developed, this plan can be easily added to, and will see rail extensions and new lines to the east, north west, west and south west.
23 Sep 2009 - Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities (274.21 KB)
This report was published by the Warren Centre and is available from the Warren Centre Office.
23 Sep 2009 - RESULTS OF THE NORTHWEST FORUM (35.00 KB)
The meeting at Castle Hill was a great success attended by 60 people including Members of Parliament and Local Councils, FROGS Directors, Members, Friends and supporters.
05 Aug 2009 - FREIGHT RAIL PRODUCTIVITY REVIEW FINAL POSITION PAPER (524.22 KB)
Following the recent Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreement to progress national rail safety regulation, the National Transport Commission (NTC) has now outlined an ambitious national reform agenda for rail productivity.
Mr Dimopoulos said the recommendations are consistent with the findings of the intermodal, grain, coal, livestock and meat supply chain reviews completed earlier this year. NTC will work closely with all governments to progress the reform recommendations.
22 Jun 2009 - EASTERN SUBURBS FORUM DETAILED REPORT (95.50 KB)
The final tabulation from the FORUM is now complete. FROGS will discuss the issues with relevant authorities and will report any breakthrougs
Keep alert for notice of our Combined FORUM covering the City of Sydney
Once again many thanks to the participants at the FORUM
18 Feb 2009 - SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF SW SYDNEY TRANSPORT FORUM (72.50 KB)
The results of the strategic planning session are now complete and are available on the website.
Planning issues dominated the discussion as well as the overwhelming lack of adequate public transport
FROGS thanks to the 52 contributors to the discussion and we hope you had a productive day.
We will relay the results to the relevant Government Ministers and Heads of Departments in the near future .
16 Feb 2009 - S W Sydney Transport Forum (152.00 KB)
The Forum was very successful and the participation was lively. Ken Dobinson painted the overall transport picture and Bob Meyer presented a brilliant background to SW regional planning.
Ann Turner managed the strategic planning workshop and the summary by David Brown gave us an overview of the day. Many thanks to participants and presenters.
30 Sep 2008 - Western Sydney Transport Forum (87.50 KB)
The Forum was a great success and was opened by Cr Paul Barber on his last day as Mayor
The results of the Forum are provided in this report
10 Jul 2008 - NORTHERN BEACHES TRANSPORT FORUM RESULTS (84.50 KB)
The results in a summarised format are shown in the attached spreadsheet
The areas investigated include the ISSUES, OPTIONS and CONSTRAINTS
08 Apr 2008 - Towards a Sustainable NSW Central Coast Region (970.11 KB)
This is a new Brochure produced in conjunction with the NSW Business Chamber Central Coast, FROGS and Andrews.Neil
It shows the way ahead for a sustainable Central Coast
17 Mar 2008 - ISSUES RAISED AT NORTH WEST TRANSPORT FORUM (52.50 KB)
These were the issues raised at the Forum at Castle Hill on Mar 10.
27 Jul 2007 - Central Coast Transport Forum (1.71 MB)
One method of transport which was discussed at the forum was Noel Child and Bruce Judd's discussion paper on high speed trains. This report presented a summary of the potential benefits of High Speed Train and Very High Speed Train technology. The report recommends a high speed train regional corridor between Newcastle, Wollongong and Newcastle initially, which may be followed by eventual extensions along the east coast to Brisbane and Melbourne and beyond to form a national rail network. Travel times on the existing rail system between the Central Coast and Sydney is about 1 hour 20 minutes. The report favours a Maglev VHST which could reduce travel times to 30-45 minutes (express - multistop).
14 Mar 2007 - 10000 FRIENDS ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE (47.00 KB)
10000 FRIENDS ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
04 Jul 2006 - Foundation Members Full List (17.63 KB)
16 May 2006 - MEASURING UP - Community Values Survey (511.28 KB)
The first project of 10,000 Friends is called The Sustainable Sydney Scorecard Project. The project has been designed to develop a scorecard to assess the progress of Sydney's Metropolitan Strategy against criteria being develooped by the project team in conjunction with other groups developing scorecards.
The first activity within the Scorecard was to undertake a Community Values Survey to assess the attitudes of the Community to public transport, medium density housing and the NSW Government’s management of sustainability issues that were originally found in the Survey of the Sustainable Transport Project undertaken in 2000. Future sub-projects will reflect the broad coverage of the Metropolitan Strategy
01 Jan 2006 - Constitution 10,000 Friends of Greater Sydney Limited (120.24 KB)
Constitution of company
Images courtesy of Integral Energy, Sinclair Knight Merz, Camden Council, John Holland Group, Creative HQ, Julie Nimmo and Sutherland Shire Council.