The Queensland Party Candidate for Cairns D.J.HUNT has called for a review of the possibility for commuter rail services for Cairns.
Mr Hunt said "It is ironic that on the day the department places the need for rail commuter services in our area in the too hard basket, promoting their own agenda with bus transport, Sunbus announces they are cutting routes and services.”
Mr Hunt’s statements came after proposals for rail commuter services were dismissed outright in favour of bus transport as part of the Cairns Transit Network. On the same day Sunbus, providers of bus transport in the region, announced they were cutting the routes and services.
“We need to have a government with the ability to see past the next election and look at the needs of our area into the future. There are options available to provide rail commuter services using existing infrastructure that would reduce a huge burden on our roadways, particularly the Bruce Highway/Ray Jones Drive bottleneck.” said Mr Hunt.
Mr Hunt stated “We have the opportunity to take hundreds of cars a day off our roadways for a relatively small outlay. The fact Sunbus has had to reduce its services in order to maintain it’s viability shows there are problems and we need to look at alternatives and not put all our eggs in one basket as appears to be happening. That’s why we are calling on the government to review this decision in light of the sunbus announcement to ensure the people of the Cairns region have a viable public transport options.”
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