The Greens will make real change for Tasmanians struggling with the cost of living by investing $165 million into making public transport free, frequent and reliable.
The Tasmanian Greens stand in solidarity with Tasmania’s bus drivers who are so concerned for their welfare they will stop taking fares from Friday.
The Greens are fundamentally opposed to the disturbing agenda the Liberals have laid out, and we will be fighting tooth and nail to make sure they do not get their way.
With the release of figures showing only a modest increase in the uptake of bus services since the introduction of half-price bus fares, it’s clear more must be done...
The Greens welcome the redevelopment the Bellerive ferry terminal, however call on the government to improve active and public transport linkages to the new terminals.
Minister, you talked a bit about DDA compliance with electric buses and that's why you might undertake a trial before purchasing; I understand that. The bus stops and DDA compliance is woeful across most of Tasmania, so I'm just wondering what you're doing to rectify the situation and making bus stops up to standard, up to DDA compliance.
Minister, given that about 3 to 6 per cent of Tasmanians are using public transport and a 49 per cent increase is needed for emissions reductions, will you extend the half‑price fares program indefinitely to encourage Tasmanians to make the switch? Are you intending for that to be permanently in place?
What is State Growth's involvement in the trial with the security screens?
Bus services in southern Tasmania are fairly poorly connected and there's a lot of frustration, particularly in regional areas, in relation to reliability of services and the function of the bus network. Often you have, from the far reaches of Franklin or the Tasman Peninsula, you might have a bus trundling up with some passengers up to Huonville and that bus may go all the way to Hobart, whereas there may be a hub‑and-spoke approach to bus services. I am wondering about the thinking and logic behind, perhaps, altering that. This is even to the point where ferries and Metro services aren't even joined up on the eastern shore, so you can't go to Rosny. What's your plan to fix some of those things?
Can you describe that first tranche of the bus rapid transit - where it is going from, the route and where it might land passengers who are coming into Hobart?