Chief Minister Gallagher has announced the latest bus timetable which takes effect on 28 May.
“Major service changes include:
– extension of Routes 318 and 319 on the Blue Rapid line to Kippax providing 15 minute frequency between Kippax and Belconnen
– improved frequency on the Red Rapid express service from Gungahlin to Fyshwick (via City) to depart [...]

Zervaas Enterprises has unleashed their TransitTimes Canberra app into iTunes:
Travelling in and around Canberra? Whether you are a daily commuter or a weekend visitor, TransitTimes Canberra is for you!
It allows you to:
- Find directions and transfers between two locations
- Manage your favorite trips
- Save your favorite routes and stops
- Save upcoming trip itinerary [...]

In a media statement released by Katy Gallagher today, she said that by 30 June of this year, 80% of ACTION buses will have bike racks.
“The ACT Government is committed to providing bike and ride options for Canberrans as an easy, environmentally friendly and healthy means for people to use their bike to access public [...]

Katy Gallagher released a statement last night about the progress of MyWay.
She says MyWay went live on 11 April last year with minimal difficulties; Canberrans finding it easy to adjust to the new ticketing technology.
“MyWay makes it easier and cheaper for the vast majority of bus travellers to enjoy bus travel”, the Chief [...]

The Liberals’ Alistair Coe is giving Chief Minister Gallagher a kick over dead running by ACTION buses and the lack of answers to how bad the problem currently is:
The Canberra Liberals lodged a question on notice on 23 February 2012 seeking information about the $120 million bus service. The answer was meant to be returned [...]

ACTION have announced their “services” for the Easter long weekend.
ACTION will be operating to a Sunday timetable over the Easter long weekend, from Friday 6 April to Monday 9 April. View Sunday timetable…
Because running a Saturday service on the Saturday was just too hard?

Chief Minister Gallagher is breaking out the bubbly and letting us know ACTION made 68,504 out of 68,818 scheduled services in February.
“ACTION’s service delivery has consistently been at or above 99.5% since July 2011, which is a great result,” the Chief Minister said.
“I am pleased that we have seen improvements in ACTION’s service reliability over [...]

Here at RiotACT we certainly hope we have blind users, if only because we’ve spent years putting alt tags onto images and it’d be nice if someone was using them.
We mention this because Chief Minister Gallagher has announced the ACT Government is going to be providing “bus hailing kits” to Canberra’s visually impaired commuters:
“The bus [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan is heralding the triumph of what she sees as The Greens Red Rapid bus routes:
The latest ACTION passenger figures obtained by the ACT Greens reveal the Red Rapid has quickly grown to become the fourth most popular bus route in the ACT.
The ACT Greens negotiated the introduction of the Red Rapid [...]

Our bus network has announced their tweaks to the system for this year.
The new bus network is expected to commence on Monday 28 May 2012. All timetables will change as a result of the new network. Timetables are currently being updated and will be available two weeks prior to the commencement of the new [...]

The ABC reports today that an ACTION bus driver kicked 15 students from Telopea Park School off a bus.
Apparently he was not pleased with their behaviour, though there is no indication of whether the behaviour was criminal or dangerous to the driver or other passengers.
It seems that in survey after survey in Australia’s [...]

Chief Minister Gallagher is calling on the young’uns (who are stuck with the bus system until they turn 17) to send in ideas for what “the ultimate environmentally friendly bus” would look like.
“The artwork of each winning entry will decorate the inside panel of an ACTION bus for 12 months. An overall winner will also [...]

Territory And Municipal Services have special buses running for the Royal Canberra Show:
Free chartered ACTION buses will operate at regular intervals over Friday and Saturday taking passengers from the Canberra Show to the City Bus Station between 9 pm and midnight.
Friday 24 February 2012
ACTION’s Red Rapid route 200 express service links Gungahlin, Mitchell, EPIC [...]

Simon Corbell has put forth word that he is thinking about putting more bus stops on Adelaide Avenue:
The ACT Labor Government is investigating options for several new bus stops along Adelaide Avenue which would make public transport more available to residents of Canberra’s inner south, including Deakin, Yarralumla and Curtin, Minister for the Environment and [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan has shared the news they they’ve been inspecting a double decker bus.
“I was interested to learn that the showcased double decker can carry more passengers than the standard ACTION articulated bus, and is cheaper,” said ACT Greens Transport Spokesperson, Amanda Bresnan MLA.
“One of the issues the Greens are concerned about [...]

My first time to take the bus 702 yesterday turned out to be quite an adventure. Perhaps that’s what you get on Friday 13th.
As the bus went up Northbourne, near the public housing just before Dickson, a kid threw a solid object at the bus and hit the rear door. There was a loud bang [...]

Our second car is currently out of rego, waiting for the Christmas tide to turn and money to start flowing again. My wife was going to take the kids for a trip to the mall tomorrow, which means using [gasp] public transport.
Now for an adult with 3 children, one under 5, the cash fare for [...]

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, they say, but last financial year there were plenty of free bus rides. Around $5 million worth actually, thanks to the aged-and-failing Wayfarer ticketing system which was recently phased out for MyWay.
The figure is part of an ACTION bus audit compiled by the auditor-general.
“So that $3-$5 million [...]

ACTION brings word that those Summernats fanciers amenable to public transport can get a bus out to EPIC:
Summernats is on at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) from 6 to 8 January 2012. Catch a regular route service to and from the event or a chartered bus from the event on Friday night and all [...]

It must be that time of year. Chief Minister Gallagher appears to be spending the day tweeting about her bus journeys.
Apparently all the bus drivers are lovely.

Katy Gallagher is celebrating a tenfold rise in people using the Nightrider bus service in its opening weekend.
“A total of 548 people used the Nightrider service on Friday and Saturday night. This is one of the busiest opening weekends in the history of the service,” the Chief Minister said.
“This compares to the 59 people who [...]

Everyone who’s ever relied on buses to get to work knows the feeling.
They’re running slightly late in the morning and start stressing and cutting things out of their morning routine to get to the bus stop on time. Maybe it’s finishing the cup of coffee, maybe it’s a quick but vital trip to the [...]

ACTION have published details of their planned services for the Christmas interval:
A modified timetable will be in place over the Christmas and New Year period from Sunday 25 December until Monday 2 January. For travel during this period, plan ahead.
Checking out the Christmas Day timetable reveals a little gift from the bus network:
All commuters on [...]

Action bus drivers will be wearing Hawaiian shirts to work tomorrow, Territory and Municipal Services has announced.
The bus drivers are supporting the Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group, who organised the Hawaiian Shirt day.
You can get involved by buying a badge from Westpac Banks or Capital Chemist shops for $4.

Chief Minister Gallagher has announced (dated 27 November but only online this afternoon) new buses for the ACTION fleet.
a contract has been signed to purchase 20 new accessible, articulated, large-capacity and environmentally friendly buses for the ACTION fleet.
“Following a thorough and exhaustive tender process, Scania Australia has been selected to provide ACTION with the Scania [...]

Territory And Municipal Services have called for feedback on planned changes to the bus network.
The catch? You’ve got until tomorrow to get them in to communityengagement@act.gov.au.
“A number of improvements have been identified to the ACTION bus network for 2012. Bus commuters are reminded to provide feedback on the proposed changes which will help inform the [...]

Simon Corbell has announced that with the Mawson Park and Ride filling up by 8.30am the facility has been expanded.
“Bike and Ride, and Park and Ride facilities were launched in Mawson on Athllon Drive in January 2010 providing 97 parking spaces and 18 secure bike lockers,” Mr Corbell said.
“From the day it opened, Park and [...]

CIO Magazine reports that the Mybus2.0 team lead by Zakaria Bouguettaya has won the ‘Unleash Your App’ award.
Zakaria Bouguettaya, a final year software engineering student from the Australian National University (ANU), won the ‘Unleash Your App’ competition for the development of MyBus2.0; an app that displays and searches Canberra public transport timetables and then uses [...]

The late night inebriate needs an occasional bus service like a fish needs a bicycle.
But Simon Corbell has announced that the very expensive and doomed to fail exercise in keeping the Greens happy known as the the Nightrider bus will be returning this festive season.
“Nightrider will run most Friday and Saturday nights in December, with [...]

Territory And Municipal Services are spruiking the chance to go on a tour of their bus wash facility.
“ACTION bus wash tours are an educational session on bus use and safety which aims to be fun and informative for young children,” Mr Roncon said.
“During the tour children will be provided with an introduction on how to [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan is taking credit for the Mitchell Park & Ride facility which Simon Corbell is opening today.
“We want to make it easier for the people of Gungahlin to get to and from places like Civic, Russell, Barton, Kingston and Fyshwick,” Ms Bresnan said.
“The new Mitchell Park & Ride is about providing [...]

Back on 4 November we noted moves afoot to change the Adelaide Avenue T2 lane back into a bus lane.
Today the Liberals’ Alistair Coe is deploying some interesting logic to decry the move:
The Canberra Liberals strongly disagree with ACT Labor’s removal of the T2 lane on Adelaide Avenue, and will take every step to reverse [...]