This report details the results, conclusions and recommendations of an investigation into the condition of the safety infrastructure of the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop and the fire protection services at Flinders Street Station.

Despite peaks and troughs over the past 64 years, the number of trips taken by passengers on Melbourne's public transport network is increasing. The Melbourne Public Transport Patronage Long Run Series report examines patronage on metropolitan trains, trams and buses since the end of the Second World War (1946-47 to 2010-11). Patronage is the number...

Slow, meandering bus routes are costing Melburnians time and money, argues this report. Buses are a vital but underutilised component of Melbourne’s public transport system and are generally the only means of public transport within regional cities. Only one third of Melbourne residents live within easy reach of a railway station or tram stop, leaving...

Poor project implementation and stakeholder management has resulted in significant delays, cost overruns and has damaged the government’s reputation. The Melbourne Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market is being relocated from its current site in Footscray to a new site in Epping. The new market will cost more than double its original cost and is expected...

Melbourne’s metropolitan strategy Melbourne 2030 was conceived in 1999, born in 2002, pronounced dead in 2009 and finally buried, unmourned and unloved, in 2011. When the newly-elected Baillieu government announced earlier this year that it intended to scrap Melbourne 2030 and replace it with a new metropolitan planning strategy, the response was a deafening silence...