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enthusiastically by the community. I commend my motion to the Assembly. I will not be supporting Ms Lawder’s amendments.

Amendments negatived.

Original motion, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Transport—network changes

MISS C BURCH (Kurrajong) (4.50): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) since Network19 launched, feedback received with regards to experiences using the new network have been overwhelmingly negative;

(b) cuts to dedicated school services under the new network have left parents and school children at a loss with how to get to and from school, with some parents unwilling to have their children travel through interchanges unsupervised;

(c) the unnecessary strain placed on the public network by the cuts to dedicated school services has meant that buses are at capacity early on in their journeys, preventing commuters from using the same services;

(d) the Minister for Transport’s claims of record-breaking patronage statistics are based on total boarding figures, not unique passengers, and are therefore not an accurate measure of the new network’s success; and

(e) the concerns regarding the safety of school children, and the inconvenience caused by the new network that were raised over the 2018 consultation periods remain a significant concern for Canberrans to date; and

(2) calls on the Minister for Transport to release detailed data:

(a) assessing the impact of the changes to the dedicated school bus network specifically to:

(i) primary school;

(ii) high school; and

(iii) college students;

(b) examining the impact of the cuts on:

(i) patronage;

(ii) journey times; and

(iii) safety for students broken down as above;

(d) report back to the Assembly by the last sitting week in August 2019.

Over the past 2½ weeks we have seen commuters in Canberra being thrown into absolute chaos as people are being forced to spend much longer on their daily

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