Page 1684 - Week 05 - Thursday, 5 May 2016
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services from North Weston and Chisholm Park & Rides, (c) introduction of a direct peak Red Rapid service for Crace, (d) introduction of a direct peak Blue Rapid service for Florey and Latham and (e) additional Xpresso services to and from the Molonglo Valley.
Ms Fitzharris: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) (a) four replacement fleet buses have been purchased and (b) one bus has been leased.
(2) Four buses have been purchased at a total cost of $1,481,432 (inc. GST) and (b) one bus has been leased from February 2016 at a total cost of $17,600 (ongoing lease cost of $5,500 per month plus set up costs including fitting of cameras ticketing and NXTBUS of $6,600).
(3) Purchased buses are less than one year, the leased bus is 2.5 years.
(4) ACTION will not be implementing the timetable that was announced on 7 September 2015.
(5) The four replacement fleet buses purchased are Euro VI and the one leased bus is Euro V.
(6) Operational Fleet Age:
0 to 5 yrs - 140 buses (52 Euro VI and 88 Euro V)
5 to 10 yrs – 88 buses (58 Euro V and 2 Euro IV and 28 Euro III)
10 to 15 yrs – 60 buses (42 Euro III and 18 Euro II)
15 to 20 yrs – 9 buses (9 Euro I)
20 to 25 yrs - 114 buses (34 Euro I and 80 do not meet Euro emission standards)
25 to 30 yrs – 5 buses (5 do not meet Euro emission standards)
Total operational fleet: 416 buses
(7) Improvements to the ACTION timetable are being developed by services planners to be introduced during the next timetable revision, which has no scheduled date at this time.
ACTION bus service—buses
(Question No 696)
Mr Coe asked the Minister for Transport and Municipal Services, upon notice, on 10 March 2016:
(1) What is the number of buses purchased for the ACTION fleet in (a) 2000 2001, (b) 2001-2002, (c) 2002-2003, (d) 2003-2004, (e) 2004-2005, (f) 2005-2006, (g) 2006-2007, (h) 2007-2008, (i) 2008-2009, (j) 2009-2010, (k) 2010-2011, (l) 2011-2012, (m) 2012-2013, (n) 2013-2014, (o) 2014-2015 and (p) 2015-2016 to date.
(2) For the financial years in part (1), (a) can the Minister list the expenditure on purchasing the buses, (b) breakdown the total number of buses purchased into new buses and used buses and (c) list the average age of the purchased buses.
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