NSW moves to accredit community transport drivers
Only Queensland has a community transport driver’s authorisation system in place, but NSW could soon follow
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Pay rates calculator records 280,000 hits
With the introduction of modern awards workers have flocked to the FWO’s pay rates calculator
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QLD campaign considers access
The Queensland Government has launched a campaign to raise disability access awareness on public transport
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One message, many voices
A new voice in public transport advocacy has just been proposed – the
Australasian Passenger Transport Association
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Rival bus group emerges
From the fall-out of the South Australian Government’s school bus tendering process, a new bus association has emerged
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Chinese bus importers to form association
With more Chinese-made buses coming into Australian fleets, local importers are about to form their own lobby group
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Bus group joins call for integrated ticketing
In the midst of grand final footy week, the chorus is getting louder for compulsory year-round integrated event ticketing
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PTDA gets green light
Legislation to create Victoria’s Public Transport Development Authority was introduced into state parliament this week
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NT catches park ‘n’ ride
It might not seem like an urban jungle, but the Top End is taking its commuting seriously
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Indigenous bus boost
The NT Government has backed a bush bus model of social inclusion, investing $1.6 million to enhance services to indigenous communities
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Bus industry unfazed by new fuel tax
While the trucking and taxi industries are troubled by a new tax on alternative fuels, the bus industry says there’s little to worry about
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PTDA okay – but bus cash didn’t splash
There was a mixed reaction to the public transport element of the Victorian budget – handed down a week before the Wayne Swan slash-a-thon
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Super win
Superbus is back in the news, this time taking out a prestigious international award and eliciting long range insights from its operator Clarks Logan City
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Budget boosts bus bays
The first of the 2011 state-territory budgets was released today – and there’s money for bus stuff
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Big task on small depots
Metro Tasmania is looking at decentralising its bus bases around greater Hobart to reduce dead running, considering a smaller depots option
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BIC backs carbon pricing
The Bus Industry Confederation is among a group of three transport advocacy groups supporting the call on carbon pricing
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Clearing the air
This weekend’s BusNSW conference shapes as an illuminating affair, with clarity sought on the new bus supply panel, and some last minute program changes
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Smart travel project launched
The NTC plans to rope public transport reform into their scope of work through the launch of a ‘Smart Travel’ project
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New bus services to feed rail line
Queensland Government commits Budget funding for a ‘special new bus service’ for commuters in Brisbane’s south-west to support new rail link
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National summit to look at premium rises
State solutions to the rising insurance premium problem will need national help, the Queensland Treasurer says.
A national summit on the
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