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to the Legislative Assembly on the transport weekend reliability action plan. We will continue to consider options for a new ticketing system for Canberra’s public transport system and provide a further update to the Legislative Assembly and the community in 2020. Madam Deputy Speaker, I move the amendment to this effect circulated in my name:
Omit all text after “That this Assembly”, substitute:
“(1) notes that:
(a) on 17 September 2019, the Minister for Transport tabled a Weekend Bus Service Reliability Action Plan that outlined several actions that enabled services to be increased when reliability could be ensured;
(b) on 28 September 2019, Transport Canberra introduced an Updated Interim Weekend Timetable that sought to address the unacceptable levels of reliability for weekend bus services;
(c) on 24 October 2019, the Transport Action Plan Quarterly Update was tabled. One of the key actions of the Plan, to continually recruit bus drivers, was noted as underway;
(d) Network19 has delivered six additional rapid routes compared to the old network;
(e) the services frequency of local bus routes was changed to two hourly in the interim updated timetable for weekends. There has been no change to the frequency of Rapid services, which account for more than 70 percent of all boardings on weekends;
(f) public transport operating hours have been extended under the new network, with more buses in the morning and evenings, delivering services every day of the week;
(g) weekend reliability has increased as a result of the reduction to two hourly weekend local services, with Transport Canberra recording an average reliability of 99.91 percent for weekend bus services so far in November 2019, which equates to just nine bus services not delivered out of more than 10 200 timetabled services; and
(h) the ACT Government is recruiting new bus drivers and will incrementally increase weekend services once enough drivers have been recruited;
(2) further notes:
(a) Canberrans continue to use the public transport network in increased numbers compared to the old network, with 5.28 percent more weekday journeys and 20.7 percent more weekend and public holiday journeys made in October 2019, compared with October 2018;
(b) based on feedback from the community, Transport Canberra has responded to issues raised, with 136 adjustments to Network19 since 28 April;
(c) the ACT Government is continuing to listen to Canberrans about Network19, with Transport Canberra speaking with key community groups, such as community councils and the Women’s Centre for Health Matters, to hear their feedback on six months of network operations;
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