Premium Content The completion of a new bus stop has marked a transformative step for Byron Bay. The new Byron Bay bus interchange, on Butler St, cost $8.4 million, 50 jobs were involved in its construction and it will take hundreds of buses off Jonson St, member of the Legislative Council and parliamentary secretary for energy and the arts Ben Franklin said when he officially opened the facility on Monday. Mr Franklin, who was representing Regional Transport and Roads Minister Paul Toole at the opening, applauded the end result of the interchange, which follows the completion of the Byron Bay Bypass, which opened in February after 30 years of planning, and the award-winning changes to Railway Park.
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The NSW Government is in the process of repositioning each of the 389 navigation markers which washed out of location during the recent floods, as part of a commitment to maintain the safest conditions on NSW waterways.
Deputy Premier and Minister responsible for disaster recovery John Barilaro said the NSW Government has completed a full assessment of damage to the State’s waterways and will be working to get markers back in place as quickly as possible.
“Almost 400 navigation aids, such as buoys and channel markers were washed away by flood waters, with the Mid North Coast being the worst affected. In one case a buoy ended up 206 kilometres from its starting point in the Manning River,” Mr Barilaro said.
Premium Content The completion of a new bus stop has marked a transformative step for Byron Bay. The new Byron Bay bus interchange, on Butler St, cost $8.4 million, 50 jobs were involved in its construction and it will take hundreds of buses off Jonson St, member of the Legislative Council and parliamentary secretary for energy and the arts Ben Franklin said when he officially opened the facility on Monday. Mr Franklin, who was representing Regional Transport and Roads Minister Paul Toole at the opening, applauded the end result of the interchange, which follows the completion of the Byron Bay Bypass, which opened in February after 30 years of planning, and the award-winning changes to Railway Park.
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Passengers using public transport in Tweed Heads will now have a better idea of when their bus is showing up and how many seats are left.
Regional Transport and Roads Minister Paul Toole said the technology was now on more than 60 buses in Tweed Heads as part of the second phase of the Transport Connected Bus Program which allows customers to track the location of a bus, its estimated arrival at a stop and how full the bus is. “We’ve already rolled this technology out in five regional centres, and to expand that to Tweed Heads will allow even more customers to see exactly when their bus will be arriving,” Mr Toole said.
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