BUS CONTRACTS

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (15:15): Of course if we'd had the full contract disclosed to us—

The SPEAKER: No, just ask the question, will you?

Ms CHAPMAN: My question is to the Minister for Transport Services. Will the additional 16 buses that the minister announced last week be providing additional bus services in Adelaide or will there be the same number of services operating as before?

The Hon. C.C. FOX (Bright—Minister for Transport Services, Minister Assisting the Minister for the Arts) (15:16): Obviously the way that we schedule the services—and what we're trying to do here is to improve the north-south running times—will be based on a needs basis as we re-regard, as we go back, as we look at how we're actually going to run these lines even better. If Torrens indicate that they need more infrastructure in terms of buses, we are there to help them with that. I think, once again, that that is quite reasonable and as it should be. Will it translate to extra services? I should frankly think so but, at this point in time, Torrens will come on board, we will look at what it is they need to do, and they can only work that out by actually beginning to run the service. So there are 16 buses, but how Torrens chooses to use them at this point in time is up to them because they are running the service.