Page 192 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 2018
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across our city over the holiday period. Over 2017 late-night rapids saw a 46 per cent increase in passenger boardings in comparison to the 2016 nightrider services, with a total of 4,171 boardings recorded, which included moving 3,581 passengers across the rapid lines on New Year’s Eve. Over this time 250 customers took advantage of the discounted trip available through the Uber app.
The late-night rapid service, including the partnership with Uber, will be running on the Friday and Saturday nights of the National Multicultural Festival, ensuring that more Canberrans can enjoy the festival and make their way home safely using public transport.
The future of public transport services in Canberra is through connections. This includes bus to bus, light rail to bus, car to bus, walking and cycling, and tailored services to the high frequency network. To ensure that connections are as convenient as possible across the network, Transport Canberra is committed to improving journey planning tools, providing better timetable information, featuring timed connections, and increasing the availability of customer service across the network.
In addition, we will continue to work on an update to our transport for Canberra plan, which will identify the government’s priorities in an integrated public transport network, as well as seizing all the opportunities we see coming through transport innovations with electronic vehicles as well as autonomous vehicles.
I move the amendment that has been circulated in my name:
Omit all words after “That this Assembly”, substitute:
“(1) notes that:
(a) the ACT Government is building an integrated public transport network for our growing city, including introducing light rail and delivering more buses more often;
(b) Transport Canberra continually monitors patronage data, efficiency and periodically updates timetables and routes to ensure improvements for passengers across the bus network, and provide higher frequency services and better connections;
(c) in 2016, the ACT Government undertook extensive community consultation on what Canberrans wanted from their transport system; almost 5500 people participated. Canberrans said the top three improvements they would like to see were quicker and more direct trips, more frequent and reliable services, and increased peak and off-peak services;
(d) Transport Canberra considers the findings of these consultations, patronage data and ongoing feedback from customers to undertake minor and major network changes;
(e) on Saturday, 7 October 2017, Transport Canberra launched updates to the weekday and weekend bus timetables as well a number of service improvements, which includes the introduction of the Green and Black Rapid services and the extension of the Blue Rapid to Lanyon Market Place;
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