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Join the push for better public transport

Published: 13 August 2008

Monash University, together with Knox City Council, is using the latest technology and social networking trends to help lobby for a rail connection to the university's Clayton campus and surrounding suburbs.

This would see a proposed underground rail line from Footscray to Caulfield extended to include a line past the Clayton campus terminating at Rowville in Melbourne's outer-east.

This would provide:

• faster access to the city during peak times;
• single-mode connection to the city;
• less traffic congestion;
• reduced carbon emissions;
• easier access for staff and students to the Clayton campus; and
• greater access to the area for non-drivers.

A new on-line petition has been launched via a new Facebook group called pt4me2.

Staff and students are able to log-in to the petition at the Facebook group or the pt4me2 website.