Although, we have highlighted many areas that are affected within Mount Druitt within Mount Druitt and surrounding suburbs, but what has been provided to you is parts taken from minutes of Transport Forums held at Blacktown City Council from 12th June 2008, 27th November 2008 and 23rd July 2009.
Here you will see that same issues currently raised by Mount Druitt community members are the same raised over 18 months ago and the comments made by the representative from the Ministry of Transport have mostly been, 'Comments are noted and will be taken for consideration'! While we accept the Governement has noted commentd what did ythe NSW Government consider, as there were no positive consideration(s) of decsion made towards the community memebers on any of these decsions. So what does the input of community members mean then?
We thank Debbie Robertosn, group member, whom has ask myself to notify all of you of these minutes! WE also thank Blacktowen City Council making these minutes available to Debbie - should you require the full minuteds from us please contact us and we will gladly supplied or contact Blacktown City Council on 9839 6000.
MINUTES OF TRANSPORT FORUM
Held 12 June 2008
Committee Room 3, Blacktown City Council
MEETING NO. 32
Mr Watson advised that Parramatta Council receive a State Government grant to provide such a bus to provide access to the Parramatta Ferry, Leagues Club and Parramatta CBD.
Consultation includes seeking advice from the local MP’s before determining the proposed network.
• Operators must also seek Council approval for local road use and bus stop locations of new bus routes.
20 September 2007
Max Webber Function Room, Max Webber Library
MEETING NO. 29
Council should be aware that bus route / stop locations in bus region 1
may change in the coming year and that this should be considered
when selecting the location of new bus shelters.
Mr Svarc advised:
Page 5 of 10
That this had considered when choosing the proposed new bus shelter
locations. New bus stop locations have been chosen following
consultation with bus companies Busways and Westbus/Hillsbus
Mr Watson advised:
Page 8 of 10
He had heard of details for a proposed St Mary’s – Ropes Creek
via Willmot and Emerton as part of the review for region 1..
21 June 2007
Committee Room 3, Blacktown City Council
MEETING NO. 28
Some other Councils have started a scheme where Councils have purchased bicycles and then proceeded to hire out bicycles to the local community. This may be something that could also be considered by Council.
IV. Intersection of Carlisle Avenue and Luxford Road – Provision of a left turn deceleration lane and slip lane. (Proposed next financial year)
11 September 2008
Committee Room 3, Blacktown City Council
MEETING NO. 33
Mr Davies advised that the general philosophy of the [NSW Bus] review is to provide higher frequency of buses on bus route paths in accordance with demand.
This should read: “the general philosophy of the [NSW Bus] review is to provide higher frequency on fewer bus route paths in accordance with demand”.
MINUTES OF TRANSPORT FORUM
Held 27 November 2008 Nirimba Room, Blacktown City Council
MEETING NO. 34
New service design
A good bus service should be fast, frequent, direct, consistent and reliable. It needs to be multifunctional and help the community get to the places they need to go such as school, work, the shops etc. Transport should be integrated and operate as one network. Buses should link to major centres, pass through pick up points such as shopping centres and be able to converge onto roads where bus priority is provided.
Issue: Customer raised concerns that the region 4 ‘feedback’ form bus routes have been changed before and feedback has been received (ie. Route 794).
Response(s): Representative of the Ministry of Transport indicated that the ‘feedback’ form showed the proposed changes. Once feedback has been received the bus routes may change in accordance with the community response to the proposals.
Issue: Customer raised concerns that bus services do not run on time even under the current bus network. How is the Ministry of Transport going to implement on-time services in future? Further, trains between Parramatta and Mt Druitt run at ½ hour intervals, which do not link in with bus time tables.
Response(s): Representative of the Ministry of Transport indicated that the comments are noted and will be taken for consideration.
Issue: Customer raised concerns that bus services will be withdrawn from Chestnut Crescent under the proposed network review.
Response(s): Representative of the Ministry of Transport indicated that the comments are noted and will be taken for consideration.
Issue: Customer raised concerns that bus route 755 will be withdrawn from Whalan and that catching a bus from Luxford Road would be difficult for elderly people to walk that far.
Response(s): Representative of the Ministry of Transport indicated that the comments are noted and will be taken for consideration.
Issue: Customer raised concerns about bus routes which are proposed to terminate at Plumpton. In particular, residents from Marsden Park are concerned that the services will terminate at Plumpton, as there are no good reason that bus routes should terminate at Plumpton. Bus services should terminate at Mt Druitt.
Response(s): Representative of the Ministry of Transport indicated that the comments are noted and will be taken for consideration.
Issue: Customer asked if there would be a change to the school bus route around Luxford Road, Tregear.
Response(s): Representative of the Ministry of Transport indicated that school bus routes will not be changed as part of the region 4 network review.
The 739 service was changed slightly due to safety issues with buses making the right turn from Frank Street onto Carlisle Avenue. Busways made the decision to change this to improve the safety of our passengers and the general public. Frank Street still has a bus services on a reduced frequency but this decision was not taken lightly and as a result, Busways has re-routed the 739V service to travel along Frank Street to provide a service to and from Mount Druitt interchange.
MINUTES OF TRANSPORT FORUM
Held 23 July 2009 Nirimba Room, Blacktown City Council
MEETING NO. 35 Growth Buses
§ ComfortDelGro Cabcharge will receive 102 new Growth Buses.
§ 50 will be put into our City Services = increase in frequency during peak times.
§ Also looking at making the 617 Service ALL DAY service.
§ 25 will be put into the T-Way Services = increase in frequency during peak times.
§ The rest will be injected into the local services over time.
Issue: Customer requested that the route 745 that goes from Shalvey to Mt Druitt, not terminate at Plumpton.
Response(s): Representative of the Ministry of Transport indicated that the comments are noted and will be taken for consideration.
Issue: Customer raised concerns about timetabling problems where buses and trains are not co-ordinated.
Response(s): Representative of Busways said that timetables will be co-ordinated with the roll out of the new Region 4 bus network.
Issue: Customer raised concerns about the lack of bus services on Popondetta Road, after 7pm.
Response(s): Representatives of Busways indicated that there is likely to be additional services once Region 4 is finalised. However, it was not known whether service frequencies would increase.
Issue: Customer requested that there be bus services provided from Woodcroft Shopping Centre to Doonside Station.
Response(s): Busway representatives indicated that there were no plans for such a service at this stage. However there will be a new service linking Mt Druitt to Blacktown via Hill End Road.
Issue: Will the bus service along Woodcroft Drive, to the shopping centre, be retained? Response(s):Representative of Busways said that there had been some talk about removing the 753 bus on Woodcroft Drive but that the final decision was not known at this stage.
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