Page 2636 - Week 08 - Thursday, 14 August 2014
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and ensuring that people are adequately focused on the upcoming change date. If we were to put the information out too early, the advice from other places is that a level of confusion arises.
That said, in response to requests from parents, I took a decision to increase the amount of time when information was provided to schools. Traditionally that has been done two weeks in advance, but parents requested a greater amount of time and that it not cut across school holidays. We have been able to line that up so that parents have had the school timetables for four weeks. There are obviously some issues there around the route networks as well. All the information has to be produced and we are trying to get it out in a timely manner, but ACTION has met its commitments. The school timetables were provided four weeks in advance and the full timetables were provided two weeks in advance, so that people have time to look at those timetables. As I say, they are more than welcome to contact ACTION if they have further questions.
In terms of network 14, I would also note that there is an 18 per cent increase in frequency of services on Saturdays and approximately a 30 per cent increase in frequency of services on Sundays. Those are additional runs that will make the service more convenient for more people, more often.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Coe!
MR RATTENBURY: I would—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Rattenbury, do not respond to Mr Coe, please.
MR RATTENBURY: The new network comes in from 1 September. All the timetables will be available from this Monday, 18 August. I will be making announcements on Monday to bring that to the community’s attention. ACTION will roll out a community information campaign which will be taken out in a series of forms of advertising, including online media, on the ACTION bus network and various ACTION facilities themselves.
There are a range of other improvements coming to ACTION, particularly NXTBUS. This goes to come comments Mrs Dunne made earlier about buses turning up on time. I think that is a source of great frustration for people. NXTBUS will live-track the buses. The site went live last week. I have put a rider on that, in saying that it is still in the final testing phase. We have gone live so that the ACTION community can help the ACTION team sort out any last glitches. I accept that there probably are still some glitches in there, but we figured the best way to sort those out was to have the users provide the feedback. For anybody who has experienced problems in that—and I know there are a few glitches—I urge them to report those to the ACTION team so that they can be addressed as quickly as possible.
In addition a series of new park and rides have been built. I have just launched a new one at Gungahlin, with 345 spots. For the residents of Gungahlin this will be a
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