Overcrowding on buses, inadequate services to outlying areas and overflowing park n rides are just some of the problems plaguing public transport in the Hills, according to locals. The concerns were aired by commuters at a forum in Mt Barker on Monday, hosted by Channel Seven and attended by Transport Services Minister Chloe Fox. It follows ongoing ...
Timed parking will be introduced this month on a Mt Barker road after traders petitioned the town’s council for the change to stop bus commuters taking up customer carparks. The six Dutton Road business owners called on the Mt Barker Council in a petition tabled at a meeting last week to apply a three-hour time limit ...
Human nature being what it is, we often don’t tend to make a concerted effort to fix a problem until we absolutely must. Commuter parking in the Hills is fast approaching that critical level. The signs were all there. The region’s population boomed when the freeway went through. Statistics from both the Mt Barker and Adelaide Hills Councils show ...
Mt Barker business owners are fed up with bus commuters using their carparks for all day parking, taking spots away from customers and abusing traders when asked to move. The business operators, all situated near the town’s Park n Ride, believe the facility did not have enough carparks from day it opened in 2008 and the ...
A local bus operator has suggested State Transport Services Minister Chloe Fox use his company for extra services to combat overcrowding on Hills buses. Dean McGinty of Lofty Coaches lost nearly all his bus contracts to run school bus services last year and has issued a plea to Ms Fox to deploy his unused vehicles. “Give us ...
Speeding trucks and overcrowded buses have provided plenty of fodder for The Courier’s letters to the editor page this month, highlighting the depth of motorists’ concerns about traffic problems along the freeway. So it will be interesting to see how the news of the installation of two permanent speed cameras on the freeway will be received ...
Hills students catching buses to schools outside the region are being treated like “second-class citizens”, according to Shadow Transport Minister Vickie Chapman. Ms Chapman made the allegation after Hills parents highlighted concerns about children sitting three to a seat and packed into overcrowded buses with many forced to stand in aisles littered with schoolbags on their ...
Hills parents want more buses put on school routes following reports of overcrowding and buses travelling at speeds too dangerous for the number of students on board. Some school children say they are having to battle with older students to get onto buses and have to push through crowded aisles to get off. Parents also fear for ...
When Hills children board the bus for their daily trip to school they face one of two very different journeys. Students who catch a dedicated school bus will enjoy their own seat, the luxury of a seatbelt to keep them safe and the assurance that they won’t have to stand up and “strap hang” on roads ...
State Government bureaucrats faced questions last week over how bus contracts were taken away from “private, long-standing” operators in regional SA and handed to an interstate company.Staff from the Department for Education and Child Development (DECD) were grilled in a Parliamentary inquiry about the handling of the bus contracts saga which hit Hills and Fleurieu ...
