Wednesday, July 23, 2008
"Believe me. I'm Lynne Kosky and I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you ... again and again and again."
THE Government is spending a million dollars on new transport advertisements because the public has demanded them, according to Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky.
“The reason we have done the ads is, in all of the research we have done with commuters, they say they want information about what is happening on the system,” she said.
“That’s why we have put the ads in place to give better information to commuters; that is what they have been asking for and that’s what we have are providing through the ads,” Ms Kosky said yesterday.
January 22, 2008 10:56am
VICTORIAN Transport Minister Lynne Kosky will review her decision to ban bikes from peak hour trains after claiming her department misinformed her on the issue.
Ms Kosky said today her department had told her it had undertaken a full consultation and review which found strong support for banning bikes at peak hours.
“I was misinformed by the department that they had done a full consultation on this and that is what I am incredibly disappointed about,’’ she told ABC Radio today.
June 4, 2007
Today Ms Kosky said it was important public transport adopt the new system slowly, saying myki might not be fully operational until next year. (That would have been this year, 2008. Yes?)
“We’re still aiming for the end of this year and early next year for the rolling-out of the ticketing system,” Ms Kosky said.
Asked why myki would not begin in June, Ms Kosky said: “We’re not going to roll-out the new ticketing system across all modes of transport until we can be 100% confident that it’s working well (because) that would be unfair to the public.”
May 27, 2008
Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky yesterday revealed the system would now cost taxpayers a whopping $850 million to install plus $500 million to operate over 10 years.
Despite the ballooning costs, Ms Kosky said the system was still expected to be running by early 2010.
She said she was incredibly frustrated with the mistake-riddled system, which is almost three years behind schedule, but said tests for the troubled smartcard were going well.
SHE'S FRUSTRATED!? WHO THINKS ABOUT THE STRAP-HANGING TAXPAYER?! But no doubt the redoubtable Lynne will be commissioning another definitive, consumer lead chicken's entrails survey into why said chicken, it's entrails, parson's nose and giblets crossed the road.
Labels: I love the smell of burning politicians in the morning.
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