From Nicholas Low, Director of GAMUT this morning:

“Thanks for your interest and involvement in GAMUT’s work in establishing the Sustainable Melbourne Alliance for Transport and Urbanism, and the Forum held last Wednesday on what the Victorian Transport Plan would mean for Melbourne.

The Forum was well attended and highly regarded. The podcasts of the talks are now up on the GAMUT website http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/gamut/about/news-events/brumby-plan.html. – well worth a listen if you weren’t able to make it, or even if you were! Each talk is only five minutes so is a bite-sized piece of transport wisdom.

Media coverage of the Forum included two articles in The Age on Monday this week, one by Clay Lucas (http://www.theage.com.au/national/on-a-road-to-nowhere-20081214-6y7b.html) and one by Kenneth Davidson (http://business.theage.com.au/business/the-real-plan-is-to-push-us-back-into-cars-20081214-6ybt.html)

We plan to continue our discussions and planning for the formation of the Sustainable Melbourne Alliance early next year. We will let you know the details once people are back on deck after Christmas and the New Year.”

In addition, Janet also informed me that the event was recorded, and podcasts of all speakers are going to be available shortly on the GAMUT website http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/gamut/ – I think they are aiming for early next week so keep a look out for them.