Transport
CCS has for many years now lobbied on your behalf for public transport in terms of increased availability, reliablity, increased services, both rail and bus and better care taking of infrastructure.
We have a committee member who is a Stationeer. This means he is allocated meagre funds to help improve our local railway facilities.
We have planted trees at Croydon Station – the bank of Sideroxylons – black iron barks along the East end of the platform on the North side. We have also planted trees at Ringwood east Station – along the South side of the North Car park, down to Dublin Rd opposite the shops.
Duncan regularily paints out grafitti on the bulidings and substations in the Station environs, a group of volunteers aften does litter collection around Croydon Station also.
We used to participate in Clean Up Australia day – choosing to de litter along the tracks, either side of both Croydon and Ringwood east stations – but Connex has disallowed this due to OH & S reasons, and now has it’s own team.
With this in mind AND the fact that patronage has increased exponentially, and given it is PUBLIC transport, CCS is encouraging all members to use the following links to alert Connex to work that needs attention, for example, recently a section of concrete Hume lattice wall was lifted off the top of a retaining wall at Ringwood East and dropped onto the pedestrian path, making it unnecessarily hazardous especially for disabled partons.
If they don’t know, they can’t fix it.
Contact details for Connex are
Website www.connexmelbourne.com.au/contacts then go to feedback
Email – Feedback@connexmelbourne.com.au
or if you like waiting in a phone queue 1800 800 705
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