Action for Public Transport (N.S.W.) Inc.

On 10 February, the MoT's John Whelan told RailCorp's customer council, the Rail Strategy Forum, that restructuring the method of contracting the services for the transport disadvantaged was a priority. He said the $500 million which goes to the private bus industry annually for school bus passes, the $20 million distributed to 300 charity groups through the Home and Community Care (HACC) scheme, and the $14 million allocated to the Subsidised Taxi scheme, could almost certainly be more equitably spent.

Some current users do so at a very high cost to the government, whereas other potential users are unable to access the schemes, or do so with difficulty. He said the forthcoming Integrated Ticketing Project was being re-focussed to enable it to track the above expenditures.