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(4) Please see table below.

Transport—integrated network
(Question No 3046)

Ms Le Couteur asked the Minister for Transport, upon notice, on 5 June 2020:

(1) What is the current status of the development of the “Moving Canberra: Integrated Transport Strategy” process.

(2) When will the final strategy be released.

Mr Steel: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) The Government consulted on Moving Canberra between December 2018 and March 2019.

Since the public consultation, a number of changes have occurred within our transport network. Most significantly, the introduction of the Climate Change Strategy (the Strategy) that sets the goal of zero net emissions by 2045 in the ACT. Public transport in the ACT accounts for 60% of all Government emissions, and as a result of the Strategy all diesel buses will be phased out by 2040, to ensure a smooth transition the work is being guided by our Zero Emission Bus Transition plan which is currently in development.

Other changes as such as the opening of Light Rail, the commencement of the 2019 bus network, and more recently the impacts of COVID-19 have seen fundamental changes to our travel behaviours.

The Government is now considering these developments alongside the feedback received from the consultation before finalising the Transport Strategy.

(2) The final strategy will be released later this year once due consideration has been given to these issues listed above.

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