bigrobbo wrote:So they would look at routes like the 224, which competes or compliments (depends on your views) the train between Mawson Lakes and Salisbury?
The 263/265 services along Anzac Highway? They were cut on nights and weekends (I think) and returned. And made a Go Zone.
Does anybody remember the service cut backs of the 90s which decimated public transport and discouraged the use of public transport? I think the surviving remnant of that is the 443. From memory, that used to run all day Sunday!!
I can understand that you would want to cut routes that are not being used.
But, you are offering a public service. There are people that struggle to get to their closest bus stop. They won’t be able to walk the extra 500m or so to another service.
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torrens117 wrote:Can someone please list the routes from the article. Cannot access the news site.
Lt. Commander Data wrote:Westfield Marion, Colonnades, Arndale, FMC, QEH, LMH, and countless other passenger generators are nearish to train lines, but not near enough to be convenient.
725 timetable wrote:725A - terminates at Old Reynella Interchange. Does not connect to city.
Eagle Eye wrote:725 timetable wrote:725A - terminates at Old Reynella Interchange. Does not connect to city.
If gunzels on here don't read the timetables then what hope do the general public have?!
Skexis wrote:All up 725's terminate at ORI, connection or not. Anyway I reckon I could easily save 30+ hours per day from the current timetables whilst still improving the services provided.
TAXPAYERS are paying at least $100 a passenger on about 10 South Australian bus services as the State Government prepares to cut its least patronised routes.
Almost 100 services cost more than $50 a passenger to operate, with the Government only recouping 20-25 per cent of its bus expenditure in fare revenue across all services.
The Government will not reveal exactly which routes are the most expensive until it determines which ones it will discontinue, while specific costs have been deemed commercial in confidence because of a tender for bus services going out next year.
The figures follow The Advertiser’sanalysis of Transport Department data pinpointing 19 bus routes with few passengers, the majority of which run in the Adelaide Hills.
Adelaide Hills Mayor Bill Spragg, said the routes running at a surplus should subsidise those running at a loss.
Transport Minister Stephan Knoll said the figures highlighted the “financial mess” left by the former Labor government that he had been left to clean up.
“We’re seeking to protect South Australian taxpayers given some services operate at a significant cost to the taxpayer,” Mr Knoll said.
The Government will aim to save $1.1 million this financial year by cutting some routes and adjusting others, with that savings target to swell to $14.8 million per year from 2019-20.
The bus route review will be completed by the yet to be established South Australian Public Transport Authority, which Mr Knoll has said is crucial to providing a “more modern and innovative public transport network”.
Mr Knoll said the efficiencies would be accompanied by investments in public transport where there was the “greatest need” for more or better services.
“We will invest more in areas where more capacity is needed as we’ve already done through the Gawler line electrification project and Flinders Link,” he said.
“We’re also delivering public transport fare reductions, the introduction of maximum 30 minute train frequency on all lines, as well as a host of local infrastructure upgrades.”
Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas said earlier this month that the public transport cuts would “hurt everyday South Australians”.
“These cuts will be a blow to the many South Australians who rely on public transport to get to work, medical appointments, school, university and to visit family and friends,” he said.
“These cuts will have a massive impact to commuters across metropolitan Adelaide — from the shift worker who relies on his late-night buses to get home from work, to the nurse who relies on public transport to get her to a hospital for her early morning shift.”
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