This is a new agenda for a government that has no plan of any substance for the City of Melbourne let alone the state of Victoria or the transport system itself which services both ie Melbourne and Victoria, so the task of identifying key issues and critical elements of the “Plan” must be taken up by the community.
Tightening economic conditions are now forcing the State government to make significant cuts in budget spending, review priorities and do more with less.
This has created an opportunity for advocacy groups to create a new narrative and use it to encourage government to change its focus. The questions that follow are
- firstly what should this new narrative be,
- secondly how could it be “sold”,
- thirdly what would be the plan to support it and finally the strategy to implement it?
These issues are discussed in the attached position paper.