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The Greens support increased affordable, efficient and safe public transport. We need fewer cars on the road and a more extensive public transport system, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, reduce congestion and provide fairer and more equitable transport access.

rail track picSince 1999 Lee Rhiannon has campaigned on many transport issues both in Sydney and in rural and regional NSW.  At the heart of every Greens transport campaign is the desire to build more publicly owned mass transport infrastructure, to increase the percentage of the population travelling by public transport instead of using private vehicles,  getting more freight off the roads and onto rail, and reducing our state's transport based greenhouse gas emissions.  

Key Greens NSW transport policy strategies


Rail campaigns


Air Quality campaign


Bicycles camapign


See Lee's archived Transport portfolio media releases prior to 2009.

 Latest news:

News Item Premier's bike love affair stops at funding
Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has called on Premier Kristina Keneally to boost spending on bicycle infrastructure to five per cent of the road's budget and to ensure this money is allocated across the state, not just in Sydney.
News Item State Greens call for Newcastle rail reassurance
The weekend state meeting of the NSW Greens in Newcastle has called on the NSW Government to reassure the Hunter community that it will maintain and improve existing rail services to Newcastle station, and not succumb to vested interests lobbying to remove the city’s vital public transport infrastructure.
News Item Sydney fails again on air quality: public transport key
Greens MP and health spokesperson Lee Rhiannon says the government will continue to miss targets set to reduce dangerous ozone levels in Sydney unless the State and Federal governments invest in quality public transport services to get Sydneysiders out of their cars (page 2, SMH today).
News Item Campbell should move on Central West branch lines report
Greens MP and public transport spokesperson has called on Transport Minister David Campbell to direct funding to ensure five branch lines in the Central West remain operational, as recommended by a report presented by five Western NSW councils to the Minister today.
News Item NSW Metro Transport plan can't save dysfunctional Kenneally government
Premier Kristina Kenneally's transport announcement will do little to restore confidence in the NSW government as Labor has had a decade of failed public transport plans Greens MP Lee Rhiannon and Leichhardt Mayor Jamie Parker said today.
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