POLICY

Improving the NightRide Bus Service

NightRide bus services play a valuable role in ensuring that people in Sydney are able to get home safely from shift work or following a night out. In fact, it was a Liberal & Nationals Government that introduced the NightRide service in 1989.

However, the like most transport in Sydney, the Government has failed to expand the service to meet population growth and the changing expectations of Sydney commuters. That means that there are many areas of Sydney that don't have a NightRide service, and on busy nights of the week, like Thursday nights, commuters can be waiting for an hour for a bus home.

The lack of public transport can have significant consequences:

• It increases the risk of drink driving, as people travel by car, rather than catching public transport.
• Failing to get people home quickly from the city increases the risk of alcohol related crime.
• A lack of access to public transport can lead to increased youth crime and anti-social behaviour in suburbs where young people are not able to travel to major centres for entertainment and social activities.

The NSW Liberals and Nationals are committed to improving public transport in NSW. As part our plans to improve public transport, we are committed to an improved NightRide bus
service.

Improved NightRide Services

In government, the NSW Liberals and Nationals will:

1) Increase the number of NightRide services on Thursday nights.
We will provide a weekend timetable service on Thursday nights. This generally means that the frequency of services will be doubled.

2) Introduce a new NightRide bus service to Richmond
Currently, there are no NightRide services on the Richmond line, meaning that commuterson the Richmond line are not able to get home once train services finish. On weekends, 4 bus services terminate at Blacktown. We will extend these services route to Richmond with an additional ten stops - Marayong, Quakers Hill, Schofields, Riverstone, Vineyard, Mulgrave, Windsor, Clarendon, East Richmond, and Richmond.

3) Increase the frequency of weekend NightRide services to Macarthur
Currently the N30 service runs once an hour to Macarthur on weekends. We will extend the current weekend N50 Route that terminates at Liverpool to Macarthur, meaning there will be a service to Macarthur twice an hour on weekends. This will further assist people living inCampbelltown, Leumeah, Minto, Ingleburn, Macquarie Fields, Glenfield and Casula.

4) Introduce a new weekend NightRide bus service along the Carlingford Line and increase NightRide services to Parramatta.
A new service will be established to run from the City to Carlingford. This service will followthe existing N60 Route between Town Hall and Lidcombe and then extend from Lidcombe to seven stops - Clyde, Rosehill, Camellia, Rydalmere, Dundas, Telopea, and Carlingford.The service will run every hour, which would provide increased frequency for commuters on the N60 Route between Town Hall and Lidcombe and a new service for commuters on the Carlingford Line.

Authorised by Mark Neeham, Level 9, 140 William Street, East Sydney, NSW 2011.
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