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Enquiries

For all enquiries about transport please contact

Hugh Worrall
Regional Resource Worker (Transport)
Phone: 02 9633 5068
Fax: 02 9687 8665
Email: hughw@wscf.org.au

or

Amy Williams
Regional Resource Worker (Transport)
Phone: 02 9687 8937
Fax: 02 9687 8665
Email: amyw@wscf.org.au

WSCF Transport Project – Social Inclusion, Sustainability, Livability

The WSCF Transport Project works to improve social inclusion in Greater Western Sydney by reducing transport disadvantage. We do this by:

providing public transport information and assistance to community sector workers who may be able to assist the most disadvantaged people to better access transport options to get them to the people, goods and services they need,
collecting information from communities in Greater Western Sydney about their interactions with the transport systems and providing that feedback to the relevant government agencies with the aim of improving transport services for people,
supporting local residents in Greater Western Sydney to make a contribution to the discussions about transport and land-use planning in their area
developing new ideas and policies to enhance the existing systems or fill gaps in the existing system

Current Areas of Work:

Smartlink Transport Register Project - Supporting the identification of community buses (paid for by government) to be utilised by the community.
Public Transport Information Project – informing community sector workers, and the participants in their programs, about the new transport services, ticketing and public transport information systems that are available to them.
Supporting Local Groups – we are working with local people and organisations in The Blue Mountains, Blacktown, Mt Druitt, Liverpool, Penrith, Parramatta, Bankstown and Campbelltown areas to assist them make a contribution to discussions about how to improve the transport services and land-use planning in their areas.
Western Sydney Carpool – we are working with a range of large employer organisations to develop the WSCarpool service. Car pooling enables people to share their cars to get to work thereby reducing their costs, emissions and demands on the roads and parking systems.
Sydney Alliance – WSCF is part of the Sydney Alliance and the Transport Project is working to help develop the capacities of local people to participate in the Sydney Alliance and to help them develop their agenda for better transport services for Sydney

WSCF Discussion Paper: Bus Stop Infrastructure

Discussion regarding the issue of Bus Stop Infrastructure.

Click here to download (PDF 137KB)

Submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission

Re: Proposed guideline for accessing compliance of bus stops with the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002

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The Gap - WSCF Discussion Paper on Buses

WSCF has written a discussion paper about ‘The Gap’. The Gap refers to the difference in access between the route bus system and the community transport system. The people who usually find themselves in this gap are well older people and people with some mobility difficulty. WSCF is recommending that Transport NSW commission and independent study into ‘the gap’ and to make suggestions for solutions.

Click here to download (PDF 61KB)

WSCF Submission on the Metropolitan Transport Plan

WSCF has recently made a submission on the Metropolitan Transport Plan.

As part of the community services sector, WSCF is very interested in how transport disadvantage and social inclusion (or exclusion) interact to improve or reduce individual and community wellbeing.

In the submission, WSCF recommends:

Consideration be made to the recommendations of the Independent Transport Inquiry regarding the governance structures for an independent Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority.
The Epping to Parramatta Rail link be included within the NSW Metropolitan Transport Strategy.
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Click here to download the full version (PDF 164KB)