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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2024-10-16T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>55</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Motions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>World Car-Free Day</name>
      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001108">
        <heading>World Car-Free Day</heading>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001109">Adjourned debate on motion of Hon. R.A. Simms:</text>
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        <inserted>That this council—</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001111">
        <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;Recognises that 22 September is World Car-Free Day.</inserted>
      </text>
      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001112">
        <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;Notes that according to the Department for Environment and Water, transport accounts for 28 per cent of South Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, the highest for any sector in the state.</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001113">
        <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;Notes with concern that public transport use has declined by 13 per cent since July 2019.</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001114">
        <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;Acknowledges that reducing car use has many benefits including:</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001115">
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;reduced greenhouse gas emissions;</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001116">
        <item sublevel="2">
          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;improved air quality;</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001117">
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;increased beneficial health and wellbeing outcomes; and</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001118">
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          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;reduced traffic congestion.</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001119">
        <inserted>5. &amp;#x9;Calls on the Malinauskas government to implement the recommendations from the report of the Select Committee on Public and Active Transport by:</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001120">
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;increasing the frequency of bus services, simplifying concessions, and improving connectivity;</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001121">
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;trialling of passenger rail services from Mount Barker to Adelaide and incentivising passenger rail between Adelaide and Melbourne;</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001122">
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          <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;trialling separated bike infrastructure and traffic calming measures, including speed limit restrictions;</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001123">
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          <inserted>(d)&amp;#x9;commencing planning for a statewide, integrated separated cycling network;</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001124">
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          <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;development of a statewide strategic transport network plan;</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001125">
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          <inserted>(f)&amp;#x9;promotion of alternatives to car travel to reduce carbon emissions; and</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001126">
        <item sublevel="2">
          <inserted>(g)&amp;#x9;legislating to enable the use of privately owned e-scooters and other e-personal mobility devices in public spaces.</inserted>
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      <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001127">(Continued from 18 October 2023.)</text>
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        <name>The Hon. R.A. SIMMS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <startTime time="2024-10-16T22:56:01+10:30" />
        <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001128">
          <timeStamp time="2024-10-16T22:56:01+10:30" />
          <by role="member" id="6802" referenceid="c1fd605273be4c058a02036c43289159">The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (22:56):</by>  I move:</text>
        <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001129">
          <inserted>That this order of the day be discharged.</inserted>
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        <text id="20241016f4e24206761b445080001130">Motion carried; order of the day discharged.</text>
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