Rooty Hill City Rail Patronage - Q & A Richard Amery - Member for Mount Druitt

Have received patronage figure of commuters on Rooty Hill train station and this shows a 1.1 percent increase for a period of six months. What does that mean  for the future - that could mean forward estimates of 11 percent increase in six years. What happens in the mean infrastructure may remain the same, unless there is a slight increase in trains stopping at Rooty Hill during this period on  future time tabled services:

PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

2012

FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH PARLIAMENT

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

No 103

16^th  July  2012

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2462—ROOTY HILL RAILWAY STATION PATRONAGE

 

Mr Richard Amery to the Minister for Transport—

1. What number of rail tickets have been sold from the Rooty Hill Railway Station for each of the six months ending 31 May 2012?
2. (a) Do these figures represent an increase in patronage for train travel from this station in comparison to previous periods?
   (b) If so, what are the details of this increased patronage?

Answer—

1. and (2) The official measure for rail patronage is passenger journeys.
   A comparison of passenger journeys for the periods December 2010 to May 2011 (470,859) and December 2011 to May 2012 (475,963) shows an increase of 5,104 journeys which represents a 1.1 per cent increase.

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Question asked on 21 June 2012 (session 55-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 101.
Answer received on 16 July 2012 and printed in Questions & Answers Paper No. 103.


Supplied by Richard Amery,  NSW Member for Mount Druitt.

Thank you, Richard.