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(2) An assessment of avoided costs was the subject of commercially sensitive legal advice received by the ACT Government. The ACT Government does not propose to release the details of that advice.
Transport Canberra—bus breakdowns
(Question No 2721)
Miss C Burch asked the Minister for Transport, upon notice, on 20 September 2019:
(1) What is the total number of ACTION bus breakdowns by model of bus for the financial years (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19 to date.
(2) What was the most common cause of breakdown by model of bus in the ACTION fleet for the financial years (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19 to date.
(3) What is the total amount spent on maintenance by model of bus during the financial year 2017-18 to date, broken down by (a) labour costs, (b) repairing existing parts and (c) procurement of new parts.
(4) What is the total number of services that (a) were not completed due to a breakdown and (b) complete their services more than four minutes after the scheduled time after a breakdown in 2017-18 to date.
(5) What is the number of breakdowns that occurred during (a) peak periods and (b) off-peak periods in 2017-18 to date.
(6) What is the average cost per (a) kilometre and (b) hour, for the entire ACTION bus fleet for 2017-18 to date.
(7) What is the total cost in terms of paid bus driver hours that can be attributed to breakdowns.
Mr Steel: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The details for this response are provided in the attached tables.
(2) The most common cause of breakdowns in (a) the 2017-2018 (b) the 2018-2019 to date was electrical system faults.
Details of breakdowns by model type are provided in the attached tables.
(3) The details for this response are provided in the attached tables. Labour costs are recorded for each vehicle type (a).
The repair of existing parts (b) and procurement of new parts (c) cannot be reported separately and is reported as the average parts costs per vehicle type.
(4) The total number of services that were (a) not completed due to a break down in 2017-18 to date was 4,854.
Another 1,005 services that recorded a breakdown was then delivered by another driver through operations.
These services contribute to the overall on time performance metric, however, cannot be uniquely reported for on time performance.
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