A new tourism bus

Even their website makes no mention of costs. Back of envelope – Shane said the government’s free service cost the taxpayer $750,000/year so this new service will need to charge fares totalling more than $2,000/day to make a profit. Getting an average of 100 passengers a day would be rather optimistic but let’s say $20/ticket. That’s $80 for a family! I doubt if it will work without a subsidy. Demand will further reduce when the government fixes the parking shortage at the national venues by introducing pay parking.

MrPC said :

Do we not have truth in advertising laws in the ACT?

I don’t think there have been truth in advertising laws in Australia for a long, long time. I’ve recently seen ads for those ultrasonic pest eliminators and pills to put in your petrol tank to improve your fuel mileage – both old and well-known scams. No doubt it all comes down to “self” (read “non”) regulation.

That photo of the bus itself is a little puzzling. What makes it the OFFICIAL (all caps and underline) sightseeing tour of Canberra?

Do we not have truth in advertising laws in the ACT?

Or is it actually official, in which case, how many bureaucrats are needed to decide which tour bus is the official one?

It must be official, since it says so in the photo on http://tourism.act.gov.au/capital-clues/new-city-explorer-bus-now-operating-in-canberra/