Sydney Trains is a mess right now because of union strikes. Commuters would have an alternative if the government didn’t over regulate the transport industry. If you want to set up a shuttle bus service, you need:
1. Third Party Property Insurance with a cover value of $5 million, as well as Compulsory Third Party insurance.
2. An annual authorisation fee calculated on how many customers you had in the year. The webpage to help calculate this is dead.
3. $120 non-refundable application fee.
4. Criminal History Check and training of employees. Written consent from the employees to run their details through The Commissioner’s Driver Vehicle Dashboard.
5. A Safety Management System and associated online training
6. Your own National Criminal History Check.
Once you’ve gotten all of this sorted, you need to pay a $1.20 levy each customer transaction. In a prime example of regulatory capture, or big business throttling competition by lobbying for regulation, there is no levy applied if you get a community transport contract with Transport for NSW, or if it’s a bus with more than 12 seats. If you have less than 600 passengers per year you pay $400 per year (400-600 rides) or $150 per year (150-400 rides) per year instead. You must also submit monthly “returns”.
Traffic jams throughout the country are getting absurd so we need to get more cars off the road. Communal transport is an answer. All the greenies want more and more regulation but this hurts the environment, as all of these cars and oversized buses are spewing out fumes still.
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