Page 261 - Week 01 - Thursday, 13 February 2020
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Transport Canberra—ticketing
MISS C BURCH: My question is to the transport minister. Minister, I refer to the government’s announcement yesterday that the government has commenced a procurement process for a new integrated ticketing system. However, the former minister for transport and senior Transport Canberra and City Services officials are quoted numerous times in this place in estimates and in annual reports hearings about the commencement of and subsequent progress made with this procurement process. Minister, what happened to the three years of progress that had been made towards procuring and delivering an integrated ticketing system?
MR STEEL: I thank the member for her question. The government has been undertaking a procurement process for some time for a new ticketing system, and I look forward to updating the Assembly as soon as I can on the outcomes and finalisation of that procurement process going forward.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, why have you scrapped three years worth of work undertaken by the directorate in order to provide a new ticketing system?
MR STEEL: We have not.
MR PARTON: Minister, why are you misleading Canberrans when you say that they will be soon able to—
MADAM SPEAKER: Finish the question, but it could be unparliamentary with the word “misleading” in there.
MR PARTON: When you say that they will be soon able to tap onto public transport with credit cards, when in reality this will not be the case until at least 2022?
MR STEEL: As I have just said to the Assembly, the outcome of the procurement process has not yet been finalised. Once it has been finalised, I will be able to provide further detail in relation to the exact specifications of the ticketing system, the transition to the new ticketing system, and the transition away from the existing MyWay and NXTBUS systems.
Transport Canberra—network improvements
MR PETTERSSON: My question is to the Minister for Transport. Minister, can you please explain the recent changes to improve our public transport network and what they will mean for Canberrans?
MR STEEL: I thank Mr Pettersson for his question and note his advocacy in relation to public transport, and particularly light rail. The government is continuing to make investments to better connect Canberrans with public transport. More Canberrans are using public transport. We have seen in the last quarter a 7.1 per cent increase in the number of journeys taken compared to the same quarter last year. We have seen Canberrans respond to the 21 per cent more services that are being delivered under
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