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Debate still raging on free student travel

In just six days as many as 17,000 Canberra schoolchildren will walk through the morning chill to the bus stop and catch a free ride to school, courtesy of the ACT taxpayer and a Liberal Government very keen on winning another term. Public servants and staff at ACTION buses have Read more…

By ACT Bus, 23 years28 August 2001 ago

$1.4m to hire seventeen ‘free’ school buses

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.

By ACT Bus, 23 years24 August 2001 ago

Routes and Services

School Buses 1998

These are the school services for the start of the 1998 school year.

By ACT Bus, 27 years ago

Routes and Services

School Buses 1989

Back in the day, rather than having all school timetables available online, ACTION would publish an annual listing of all school services.

By ACT Bus, 36 years ago