New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PASSENGER TRANSPORT ACT 1990 - SECT 28EB

28EB Strategic transport corridors

(1) The Director-General may from time to time, by order published in the Gazette, declare a transport corridor to be a strategic transport corridor for the purposes of this Division with effect from the date specified in the order.

(2) The Director-General may at any time, by order published in the Gazette, vary or abolish a strategic transport corridor with effect from the date specified in the order.

(3) In deciding whether to declare a transport corridor to be a strategic transport corridor or to vary an existing strategic transport corridor, the Director-General may take into account:

(a) the potential for the corridor:

(i) to link regional centres and provide access to hospitals, educational institutions, shopping centres and other facilities or locations that generate major passenger transportation demands, and

(ii) to integrate bus services with other key modes of transport along the corridor, and

(iii) to provide fast, frequent and direct transportation for passengers, and

(iv) to provide a blueprint for the implementation of appropriate bus priority measures, and

(b) such other matters as the Director-General considers relevant.

(4) A strategic transport corridor may be declared (or a declaration of a corridor varied):

(a) by naming, or illustrating by means of a map or plan, the area or routes (or both) that constitute the corridor or that are affected by the variation (as the case may be), or

(b) in such other manner as is sufficient to specify the corridor or variation.

(5) A strategic transport corridor may be varied:

(a) temporarily-that is, between dates specified in the order effecting the variation, or

(b) until further order (if any).

(6) Without affecting the generality of subsection (5), a strategic transport corridor may be varied temporarily to permit construction or maintenance of a road or road portion along which the route proceeds.

(7) The declaration, variation or abolition of a strategic transport corridor under this section does not affect the continued operation of a service contract for a regular passenger service entered into on or after the commencement of this section unless the service contract so provides.

Note: Part 7 of Schedule 3 provides for a declaration or variation of a strategic transport corridor to vary certain service contracts for regular bus services that were in existence before the commencement of this section.