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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 4 Hansard (3 April) . . Page.. 1414 ..

(5) A new timetable with 'improved' services for Gungahlin, Campbell Park and the Hospice was announced in April last year, from that time can you please provide the number of patrons for each month for each route of these new services (ie: April 2002 to February 2003).

Mr Corbell: The answer to the Member's questions is as follows:

1. ACTION currently operates an average of 99.8 % of its advertised scheduled services across Canberra. On time arrivals included services that arrive no more than 5 minutes late.

2. ACTION does not maintain records in the detail requested. Surveys are conducted regularly to monitor on time performance. Services that may be delayed due to changing traffic conditions etc are modified as appropriate to meet the scheduled running times.

3. The following table provides monthly total patronage for the period July to

February for the financial years 2001-02 and 2002-03.

Month

Total Patronage

2001/02

2002/03

Difference

%

July

1,229,523

1,283,467

53,944

4.39%

August

1,547,629

1,571,411

23,782

1.54%

September

1,415,283

1,441,198

25,915

1.83%

October

1,314,155

1,376,266

62,111

4.73%

November

1,476,050

1,460,510

(15,540)

(1.05%)

December

1,007,230

1,077,040

69,810

6.93%

January

851,515

872,818

21,303

2.50%

February

1,359,449

1,420,633

61,184

4.50%

Total

10,200,834

10,503,343

302,509

2.97%

4. Overall patronage growth year over year for the period 1 July 2002 to 28 February 2003 is approximately 3%. Adult patronage, over the same period has grown approximately 8%.

5. The introduction of the action network since 13 May 2002:

Gungahlin

Overall there was a 15% increase to services with 4 complete routes operating as opposed to 3 1/2 under the existing network. This is a total of 205 extra services for Gungahlin.

There was an increase from 166 to 198 services per day from Monday to Friday.

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