Page 553 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 June 1989
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MR KAINE: Could I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. It has to do with the development of the whole area of the city centre. My question is: Is this another piecemeal development proposal that has no regard for what is happening elsewhere in the centre of Civic, including the area immediately adjacent to it across Northbourne Avenue, or is it part of a long term-plan that somebody has in mind to make sure that there is a consistency in planning over the whole area?
MS FOLLETT: I think I have answered that question by saying that the National Capital Planning Authority has released that draft proposal. As it refers to only sections 18 and 19, it is clearly not a comprehensive proposal. I think that answers it; it refers to only those two sections and has been done by the National Capital Planning Authority. The Interim Territory Planning Authority has made some comment upon it, but I think the answer to the question is that it at present refers to only those two blocks.
Bus Service
MR DUBY: My question is addressed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. I refer to a letter to the Valley View of 28 June, written on behalf of some residents of Wanniassa and Oxley, who complain that bus route 183 from Erindale to the Hyperdome, which left at 8 o'clock in the morning, has been cancelled, which means that many, many people now have to travel to Woden and then out again, and they find it very, very inconvenient in the mornings to do that. It means a very early start for the day.
Can the Minister undertake to arrange the reintroduction of an early morning service from Erindale to Tuggeranong, given that employment at the Tuggeranong centre is bound to increase and that the demand for the service therefore will rise?
MRS GRASSBY: I thank Mr Duby. No, I did not know that, although there have been a lot of changes in bus routes with the new Bus Book that is out, and we have been trying to service the Tuggeranong area in a much better way than it had been. Of course, there always have to be changes from time to time, and we find that a bus has been taken off a route that was very well serviced before. It is not until something like this comes up that we find that there is a problem.
I will look into it and get back to Mr Duby about that as soon as possible, and will find out if there is something that we can do about that.
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