Bus Services

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens) (15:07): My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. How will residents in McLaren Flat be able to access public transport? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: The government's new timetables published online have removed all services from this area.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (15:07): I thank the member for his question. It is interesting that he is asking me about specific bus routes and bus stops when yesterday he was trying to assert that he couldn't actually look at the website and understand what was going on.

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: Point of order, Mr Speaker: this is clearly debate. It was specifically about McLaren Flat, and we ask that he address the substance of the question.

The SPEAKER: I have the point of order. I'm going to allow the minister to talk about public timetables, bus stops and buses, but if he starts teeing-off the opposition initially straightaway that is not going to go well, so I would ask the minister to think about that and I will listen carefully to his answer.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: I have provided information publicly previously that says that of these bus stops 31 per cent had zero average daily boardings and 71 per cent of them had five or fewer boardings over an entire day. That was over an entire day with figures that were used based on the most busy month that can be used in assessing what the average daily boardings are. My understanding is that every single one of those stops is within that 70 per cent; in fact, quite a number of them that are within that 30 per cent.