Page 1282 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 11 April 2018
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government is also considering how services can be improved for the more than 50 per cent of students who catch a bus to school but already use regular route services rather than special school services. Transport Canberra provides a nation-leading bus service to the community and strives to continually improve across the entire public transport network.
I note and agree with Miss Burch that where there are issues of punctuality they can be followed up immediately. There was a recent example of a school where the school bus was, throughout the first part of the first term of this year, running consistently late in getting kids to school. That was brought to my attention and has been able to be fixed over the course of this term, which I am really pleased with.
I have an amendment to the motion which I understand will be supported. I move the amendment circulated in my name:
Omit all words after “That this Assembly”, substitute:
“(1) notes that:
(a) there is no agreed standard in the Australian public transport industry for the measurement of on-time performance of bus services;
(b) Transport Canberra buses are measured for timeliness through one of the strictest measures in the country using GPS technology through the MyWay ticketing system;
(c) Transport Canberra is a leader in providing open performance data and regularly publishes data on the ACT Government Open Data portal—www.data.act.gov.au;
(d) Transport Canberra records timeliness across selected timing points along each bus route for the entire network, including day, night and weekends. This equates to recording over 6.4 million timing points each year;
(e) a Transport Canberra bus service is considered on-time when departing a nominated timing point within one minute early and four minutes later than scheduled;
(f) based on this strict methodology on-time running is currently at 73% (for the 2017-18 financial year up to 1 April 2018);
(g) on-time running of Transport Canberra buses is not adjusted for any road disruptions or any diversions that occur in the city;
(h) 99.6% of Transport Canberra bus services are completed as scheduled; and
(i) 85.3% of Transport Canberra bus services commence on-time;
(2) further notes that:
(a) Transport Canberra delivers 246 school special services across the day—95 during the morning peak and 151 in the afternoon peak;
(b) providing school services that are long, circuitous and share the road with other users can present a challenge in delivering reliable services consistently;
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