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The $1.4 million fee to hire buses to cope with the start of the free school bus travel scheme on September 3 has been labelled a “waste of money” by Labor MLA Wayne Berry.
Some commuters have backed a ban which means bus drivers will not pick up or drop off passengers at Manuka bus stops when cars are illegally parked in the bus zones. Transport Workers’ Union ACT secretary Andrew Whale said bus drivers, who were concerned about passenger safety, endorsed the boycott Read more…
The Liberals promised they’d do it six years ago, but no-one dreamed they would. Non Government school lobbyists had occasionally raised the free school bus plan (promised by the Liberals in 1995, but not delivered) but it had long been dismissed by unions and government-school lobby groups. The thinking was Read more…
THE HYSTERICAL cries over Australia’s petrol prices are not being reflected in a rush to forsake the private car for public transport. The Federal Government is being warned daily that the ‘anger and outrage’ over petrol prices will see it replaced at this year’s election. But it seems all this Read more…
One man has died and five school children were injured in a horror day for ACTION buses on Canberra roads yesterday. Ambulance paramedics and police were called to three separate accidents after 3pm, two involving ACTION buses. A man believed to be in his 40s was killed instantly after being Read more…
An ACT Labor government would seriously consider limiting car-parking spaces to encourage greater use of public transport, Opposition transport spokesman John Hargreaves says. Commenting on a survey which showed increased satisfaction with ACTION, Mr Hargreaves said something had to be done to attract people who had a choice to use Read more…
This week’s decision by the ACT Government to call tenders for the operation of Canberra’s buses was as opportunistic as it was predictable. A full-on industrial dispute at election time, albeit a federal election, never did the liberal party any harm. But to take on “the bullies” of the Transport Read more…
Canberra’s bus company ACTION launched the first trial of bike racks on buses in Australia. This is what ACTION said in their media release on 14 February 1997: “ACTION will be launching bicycle racks which will be fitted to the fronts of buses and will allow cyclists to reach their Read more…
A newly completed $16.5 million state of the art bus depot in the outskirts of Canberra creates a new benchmark for the design of environment – and user-friendly transport services, it is claimed. The Tuggeranong Bus Depot uses Lysaght steel roofing materials to set a new standard for form and Read more…
It is refreshing to see a major Government transport undertaking admitting that it has made a couple of ‘blues’. Generally, the Government and the bureaucracy never admit to making mistakes although the boners might be of monumental and hugely costly proportions. I suppose that’s a development of the old principle Read more…