Over 26,000 Inner-West residents and commuters have signed petitions that have been ignored by the NSW Government when debated in Parliament on October 12th and last week.
There has been a flood of letters in your paper over the planned fire-sale to Keolis-Downer of an essential public service that have been a people's asset for over 100 years in this State.
'Blind Freddy' can see the bus stop removals are not about speeding up the service but further inconveniencing the public for a 'streamlined', mainly peak hour only, service to suit the potential buyers.
Enough is enough! The secret deals have been planned for the new year implementation by Transport Minister Constance and Premier Berejiklian.
The commuters and the general public must act now. The bus drivers are hampered by an industrial court order threatening them with individual $5,000 a day fines if they refuse to allow the use of Opal Cards or go on strike.
Maybe the bus users have to retaliate and refuse to use their opal cards to deprive the shonky government of revenue and save the buses !
We are calling for local people to assemble outside all eleven government bus depots, in our case Leichhardt and Burwood, on Monday December 4th between 8-9am with placards reading "Save OUR Buses!"
Once again thank you to the Inner-West Courier for being a rare voice of democracy on this issue.
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