Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Shane Rattenbury has recently announced that free Wi-Fi will be available to passengers on five ACTION buses as part of a 12 month trial.
Mr. Rattenbury explained that to manage Canberra’s growth, reduce congestion and protect our liveability, we need to improve our public transport system. Buses provide an essential community service, but they need to be improved for more people to use them more often. As part of our commitment to improve our public transport system and provide a more pleasant passenger experience ACTION has installed CBRfree Wi-Fi on five buses. The buses selected for this trial will be clearly identified with signage placed both outside and inside the bus. The buses aren’t restricted to particular routes or services, so passengers across Canberra are likely to ride one of the Wi-Fi buses at some point during the trial – helping ensure we get a good range of feedback.
“The ACT Government’s Transport Plan will improve our public transport system so it becomes more convenient, efficient, affordable and reliable – a genuine alternative to driving. The provision of CBRfree Wi-Fi on public transport will help make the switch from cars even more attractive.” Minister Rattenbury commented “The trial of CBRfree on buses is part of extending the highly successful rollout of the Wi-Fi network across Canberra.”
Minister Ratenbury explained that CBRfree is live across Civic East and Civic West, Belconnen, Dickson and Manuka with Tuggeranong and Kingston expected to be online in the first quarter of 2016. Woden, Weston Creek and Gungahlin will be completed by mid 2016. CBRfree is also available at Exhibition Park, Tuggeranong Basketball Stadium, the Criterium Cycling Stadium at Stromlo Forest Park and even at events like Floriade. It has proved very popular, with 30 000 unique users a week and numbers using CBRfree increasing all the time.