Sad for Save Our Bus Services but Glory Days For new Mount Druitt Area Transport Users Group

Yes, that is right! Today my proposal to expand our group to a community based transport lobby group was welcomed by each group member today. A unanimous decision was made for us to start a new transport lobby group covering all of Mount Druitt. This will enable train, taxi cycling users to be involved in the transport infrastructure decisions that affect all community members and provide better efficient transport around.

Although this decision has been made, we are all search for new group name and branding. Any assistance from the community will be appreciated. we will advise further - this is a step in the right direction - my understanding we will be able to handle this as we will look at it being fully constituted.

Our next meeting on 17th will resolve this issue and our constitution will set us for the future.

Where Do We Go from Here?

Boy, that is easy "Going forward" we will ensure that there is always moving essential, reliable Public Transport all around Mount Druitt

I understand that there needs to be a voice from within the community, actually that voice would be representing hundreds and also thousands of voices that want, need and require transport services in and around Mount Druitt.

Should there not be a voice then Local, State and Federal governments will just 'railroad' transport changes without providing proper community process, advice and feedback. Public 'outcry' reaction through would start splinter groups that would become like us. Thus including a group like ours in the Local Transport Decision process will benefit not just the community, the Transport representatives that run each from of transport and the government officials that make important decisions, paid by the community.

We need to be invited with the bus review process and decisions with City Rail for train time table process and also with the NSW Taxi Council.

Gap buses - what are they and do they work? Flexi bus services will this be the bus of the future: the same cost of your bus fare, you ring up to book your trip to pick you up in your front door - but you have to book your trip at least one hour before.

I'm starting to talk to some people around the area to get a feeling how people would react to it. Everything is negative until you mention the cost is the same as your daily ticket or weekly ticket. It is getting people thinking about new options for public transport. New ventures to look at - something that will make everybody talking and be happy with. We need to ask the local press whether they feel this is what the community needs now . Yet this could be a something that comes in in5 years time!

We will back the community to ensure the correct amount of essential transport meets the demand of supply! We will move the Transport Forward not backwards!

Western Sydney 2030 - Not Much On Buses!

We have found a website which is concerned of everyday lively hood of our population for the future. Provided is the basics as to they are on about:

Western Sydney is a patchwork of people and communities, reflecting much of Australia's diversity and experience.

From towns nestled in a World Heritage Area to agricultural lands, industrial areas, low and medium density residential areas, and major business centres, Western Sydney residents hail from the four corners of the globe, bringing to Sydney and Australia a diversity of cultural and personal experiences.

It's about time we all had a say in how our lives and communities will be in twenty years' time and beyond. That's why Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC) has created this website to allow the people who live in Western Sydney to put forward a vision for how Western Sydney should be in 2030.

Through this web site we are asking people to tell us of their hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future. Our expert panel will turn that information into an integrated picture of what life could be like in Western Sydney.

That way the people of Western Sydney will be able to see clearly whether or not policy proposals and promises made by politicians will make life better or not.

Here is a link to their website- where you can answer a quick survey:

http://www.westernsydney2030.com.au/

This is a good reason why we as a group have have fought for the people of Mount Druitt. Where bus services were removed or deleted from our community by political decisions that took us to the dark ages of when bus services were firstly and introduced with the area. I personally think that political decisions were made not from the heart and they know Mount Druitt people would be easy - they will not complain they will accept the extreme change of services.

What the politicians didn't realise is that people have feelings and emotions and once you take away essential services from every day lives - you have just downgraded these people's lives, in some cases lives changed not knowing what to do, adding costs and time to get to their destinations. We as a group are upgrading people's lives to where they should be today, we will even go further and ensure the politicians affect the lives of Mount Druitt dramatically!

My added comments on buses:

John Svoboda -Chairp 2010-03-27 03:54
AS Chairperson of a group trying to return bus services removed /deleted from within Mount Druitt - I think the government has gone backward - the plan should be now to increase bus services not wait for a long time for this to happen - The community needs proper transport and we need to promote more car off the road get community members into cheaper public/private transport - this also brings make the air less pollutant as well - less fumes in the air!Reply Reply with quote Quote

There wasn't much on buses but we can move ahead from here!