Corbell strangely quiet

Updated April 23 2018 - 8:17pm, first published May 31 2015 - 6:26pm

Capital Metro Minister Simon Corbell told the North Canberra Community Council on May 19 it would be difficult for the government to meet its election commitment of a 10.5 per cent public transport mode share by 2016. But in a letter dated May 25, he declined to explain how Capital Metro estimated that the public transport mode share has already reached 11per cent, that buses provide 350 times the greenhouse benefit of light rail, or that light rail would take 24 minutes off the average peak period public transport trip, resulting in $222 million worth of travel time benefits.

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