Today is exactly 5 years (or 1831 days) since Victoria's Bus Plan was released. Possibly not uncoincidentally the Victorian Auditor-General (VAGO) had a report critical of bus network planning in Victoria tabled in parliament yesterday. It makes interesting reading. VAGO found that the Department of Transport and Planning had an ambitious vision for buses to be a mass transit option by 2031 but that it could not be achieved given the current state of the network and slow progress. Audit also found some performance measures differed from customer experiences, a failure to meet many targets and poor quality data including annual bus patronage being undercounted by about 25 per cent (with wide variations). Furthermore, DTP was criticised for not being open with Victorians on Bus Plan progress, something that was possibly made embarrassing by the plan's flagship network reforms being predicated on funding that the Department was unable to win from the budget process or find from internal…
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