As Canberra faces widespread disruption from today’s bus driver strike, the ACT Greens have lashed the Labor government, calling on them to take urgent action on public transport safety.
This afternoon at around 1pm, Transport Canberra announced that bus services will be offline for the rest of the day, but are expected to return to normal tomorrow, Saturday 16 November.
The chassis was made in Brisbane and the body was made in Melbourne but by golly our old, blue-and-orange Action buses are 100 per cent Canberran and since 1987, they’ve driven the equivalent of 75 times around the planet.
In May 1989, the fledgeling ACT Government launched a Bus Safety Rap video, featuring Lyneham High School students, Neighbours actors, and pseudo-American accents.
It was a different world: an age of big hair,...
A vigil will be held to remember the victims of the Hunter Valley bus crash and thank paramedics, nurses and frontline workers who have helped in the crisis.
Canberra's public transport numbers have soared during the first week of school, with new data showing the best patronage since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.
Commuters may notice a new ‘car’ smell on their way to work in coming weeks, as the ACT’s first battery-electric bus hits the road. The first of a dozen Chinese-made Yutong E12s that are on a five-year lease to Transport Canberra commenced service on Wednesday 25 January.
