Page 50 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 11 February 2020
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Transport—driver education
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the minister for road safety. I refer to the recent changes in the learner permit logbooks. Minister, can you please advise why, in the driver competencies section of the new logbook, there is no place to mark if the competency was achieved in a manual or in an automatic vehicle?
MR RATTENBURY: I will seek some advice on that and provide Mrs Dunne with a detailed answer.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, while you are doing that, can you please advise how the driving instructor will be able to record whether or not the competencies are undertaken in a manual or an automatic vehicle and what impact that will have on the licence obtained?
MR RATTENBURY: I am very happy to do that. I can inform the chamber that driving instructors were involved in a range of discussions prior to the implementation of this new system. I think that there are diverse views, and we have certainly seen some of the concerns publicly expressed by some of the instructors. Those discussions are continuing. I know that my directorate is having a meeting this month with a number of driving instructors to have further conversations about the implementation of the system.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, did you read over the final copy of the logbook before it was printed and how many of these incorrect logbooks are already in circulation?
MR RATTENBURY: No, I did not read over the logbook. I do not think that that is necessarily a ministerial responsibility. I am happy to take the second part of the question on notice.
Transport Canberra—network 19
MISS C BURCH: My question is for the Minister for Transport. I refer to a Canberra Times article dated 1 May 2019 titled “Pressure mounts on ACT government over bus network”. Minister, why did you knowingly overpromise and underdeliver on the original network 19, only to reinstate services that Canberrans have needed since April last year now that it is an election year?
MR STEEL: I thank the member for her question. The key elements of network 19 remain: light rail, 10 rapid bus services, a seven-day-a-week network, and an expanded span of services on the weekend for Canberrans to use. Those elements still remain, but we always said, from the very beginning, that we would monitor how the new network was operating. We have been doing that on a consistent basis. After six months, we decided that we would make changes to the network, which we will be implementing in term 2, responding to community feedback and the rich set of data that we now have showing what improvements could be made to the network. Next year, I have no doubt that we will continue to look at further changes in addition to that. Then, with the expansion of light rail throughout the city, I am sure that we will
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