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Issue No. 258 | 08 April 2005 |
Be My Guest
Interview: Australia@Work Unions: State of the Union Industrial: Fashion Accessories Legal: Leg Before Picket Politics: Business Welfare Brats Health: Cannabis Controversy Economics: Debt, Deficit, Downturn History: Politics In The Pubs Review: Three Bob's Worth Poetry: Do The Slowly Chokie
Sweat Shop Taxes MLC�s Patience Cops Strengthen Thin Blue Line Building Families Pocket $15 Million
The Soapbox The Locker Room Culture Parliament
Labor Council of NSW |
News Buses Drive Commuters Crazy
Worried bus operators are driving a campaign to slash travelling times, fearing such scenarios will drive people away from public transport. The drivers have gone to the public in a bid to force the RTA to provide bus lanes on the city's most stressed corridor, Victoria Rd. Last month, they handed flyers to every passenger who got on a Victoria Rd bus, urging them to email the RTA, Members of Parliament, and Mayors. In a follow-up, the Burwood, Leichhardt and Ryde drivers, last week, handed passengers congratulatory leaflets, in response to complaints and praise from politicians who copped hundreds of messages. RTBU official, Peter Jenkins, said the lack of the bus lane "dramatically stuffs up" Sydney's transport system. "There is a domino effect when buses can't get through," he said. "By regulation, drivers can only operate for five hours without a break. "When buses run late at peak hour there are few, if any replacement drivers available, and the whole system breaks down. When people have to wait 50 minutes to travel seven kilometres, they will walk away from the system, and everybody loses.' He said the "domino effect" had caused as many as 48 Victoria Rd, peak hour, services to be cancelled in a single week. Drivers want bus lanes, which have sped traffic flows along Parramatta Rd, extended along Victoria Rd as far as Ryde. Drivers thanked state Labor MP, Angela D'Amore, for publicly supporting their campaign.
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