Transport

We’re here at a real moment for active transport: there’s a shared and growing understanding about the importance of giving people options for how they move around our cities and towns. 

In the Eastern suburbs, the Government is now cutting bus services and ripping out stops, all to force passengers on to their failed CBD & Eastern Suburbs Light Rail. 

This is a transport procurement debacle. The Government’s transport policies are in complete chaos.

In a stunning turn of events in the NSW Parliament, the Government voted against a Labor motion calling for an end to the overseas manufacturing of transport infrastructure and to support Australian jobs in New South Wales.

This is what happens when you offshore manufacturing and privatise our transport system: corners get cut and passengers lose out.

A notice of motion on the Liberal Government's closure of the Inner West Light Rail 

Labor is urging the NSW Government to make replacement bus services for the Inner West Light Rail free so passengers do not have to pay for the inconvenience caused by the Government’s poor transport procurement policies.

The closure of the Inner West Light Rail line for at least 18 months and the decommissioning of every single tram on the line is clear evidence that the NSW Government’s transport procurement policies have comprehensively failed passengers across the state.

The NSW Government’s policy of buying cheap transport infrastructure from overseas has been thrown into disarray after Transport for NSW admitted that every single tram on the Inner West Light Rail that has undergone recent safety inspections had serious cracking defects.

The Electric Vehicles (Revenue Arrangements) Bill 2021 seeks to legislate key aspects of the New South Wales Government's $490 million Electric Vehicle Strategy.