Page 2977 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 15 August 2018
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in Lanyon. She continued:
Trinity has a wide ‘zone’ so children in this area are not attending an out of area school.
Currently there is a dedicated Gordon Trinity service in the afternoon (ie enough students to just do a pick to Trinity and service our side of Gordon). (There is an additional bus which services the other side of Gordon and picks up at Mackillop, Trinity and St Anthonys).
They are very, very concerned about the changes.
I have pages of comments from social media sites, which I will not go through now. But I would just briefly mention concerns raised by the Tuggeranong Community Council. People from Transport Canberra attended the Tuggeranong Community Council meeting in early July. Unfortunately the notes from that meeting are not yet, as of just before lunch today, up on “What We’ve Heard” on the your say website. It has notes from a meeting at Gungahlin, which was a week later, but the notes from Tuggeranong are not yet available online.
Tuggeranong Community Council said:
Approximately 100 people attended last general meeting … to raise their concerns about the proposed new bus routes.
I was at that meeting. But notes on other meetings outlined on the your say website talk about 30 people in north Canberra, about 40 people in Weston Creek and about 25 people in Gungahlin. You can see the difference in the number of concerns in the Tuggeranong community because there are so many changes proposed in the Tuggeranong area, including the very, very popular Xpresso buses, as well as the school buses. As the TCC note says:
Main concerns raised were the cutting of all express buses and dedicated school buses. While the extra Rapid buses might benefit many people, there are many other people, including students, who will have longer journeys with some of them having to catch multiple buses and wait around interchanges for connections.
In summary, I commend Miss C Burch’s motion to the Assembly. It outlines the concerns that we are all hearing from members of the public, especially bus users, but also those whose children or other family members catch the bus—and even those who might want to catch the bus, including those in retirement villages who have said to me that they had picked a particular retirement village because there were bus stops nearby. Goodwin in Monash is an example.
They might be driving now, but they picked that retirement village because of the bus stop proximity and the availability of buses to get them to where they needed to go. They are concerned that under these proposed changes those buses or bus stops may no longer be available to them. I thank Miss C Burch for bringing forward and
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