23 Oct 2012: SEQ: Call for the release of the Q4 2011/2012 TransLink Tracker

[ozbob]

Media release 23rd October 2012

SEQ: Call for the release of the Q4 2011/2012 TransLink Tracker

RAIL Back On Track (http://backontrack.org) a web based community support group for rail and public transport and an advocate for public transport passengers has called for the public release of a non-sanitised version of the Q4 2011/12 TransLink Tracker.

Robert Dow, Spokesman for RAIL Back On Track said:

"TransLink publishes a quarterly snapshot of public transport performance data in a publication known as the TransLink Tracker.  The TransLink Tracker for the final quarter in the last financial year as not been released publicly  (1)."

"When the Minister for Transport was queried during the Parliamentary Estimates why the Tracker has not been published he failed to answer directly and asserted that the data was in the recently published TransLink Annual Report (2)."

"That is not the case. The TransLink Annual Report 2012 has some summary data derived from quarterly data eg. OTP, but the bulk of the data of various measures and detail in the  TransLink Tracker is NOT in the Annual Report."

"When in opposition, Mr Emerson stated in Parliament 'The government and its agencies need to be open, transparent and accountable, not evading responsibility and hiding the truth ....' (3)."

"Failing to be open, transparent and accountable is not acceptable Minister."

References:

1. http://translink.com.au/about-translink/reporting-and-publications/annual-and-quarterly-reports

2. http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2012/2012_10_18_Estimates.pdf

3. http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2011/2011_08_04_WEEKLY.pdf

Contact:

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org
RAIL Back On Track http://backontrack.org

[ozbob]

Discussion thread --> http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=9148.msg111126#msg111126

[ozbob]

Sent to all outlets:

27th October 2012

Re: SEQ: Call for the release of the Q4 2011/2012 TransLink Tracker

Greetings,

The Q4 TransLink Tracker finally appeared.  A good summary of its contents can be found here -->  http://brizcommuter.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/translink-tracker-201112-q4.html

The Minister for Transport has already started quoting figures for Q1 2012/13 ( http://railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?topic=9193.0 ).  The public of course is just left in the dark generally with respect to detailed and timely public transport data in Queensland.

How long before the Q1 2012/13 TransLink Tracker is made available?

And in the future can the more complete version of the TransLink be made available please?  There are two versions of the TransLink Tracker apparently, a more detailed and complete version for insider use, and the sanitised version made available publicly.  We know this because once TransLink mistakenly posted up the detailed version for a short time on their website, before replacing it with the sanitised version.

Best wishes
Robert

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org
RAIL Back On Track http://backontrack.org

Media release 23rd October 2012

SEQ: Call for the release of the Q4 2011/2012 TransLink Tracker

RAIL Back On Track (http://backontrack.org) a web based community support group for rail and public transport and an advocate for public transport passengers has called for the public release of a non-sanitised version of the Q4 2011/12 TransLink Tracker.

Robert Dow, Spokesman for RAIL Back On Track said:

"TransLink publishes a quarterly snapshot of public transport performance data in a publication known as the TransLink Tracker.  The TransLink Tracker for the final quarter in the last financial year as not been released publicly  (1)."

"When the Minister for Transport was queried during the Parliamentary Estimates why the Tracker has not been published he failed to answer directly and asserted that the data was in the recently published TransLink Annual Report (2)."

"That is not the case. The TransLink Annual Report 2012 has some summary data derived from quarterly data eg. OTP, but the bulk of the data of various measures and detail in the  TransLink Tracker is NOT in the Annual Report."

"When in opposition, Mr Emerson stated in Parliament 'The government and its agencies need to be open, transparent and accountable, not evading responsibility and hiding the truth ....' (3)."

"Failing to be open, transparent and accountable is not acceptable Minister."

References:

1. http://translink.com.au/about-translink/reporting-and-publications/annual-and-quarterly-reports

2. http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2012/2012_10_18_Estimates.pdf

3. http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2011/2011_08_04_WEEKLY.pdf

Contact:

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org
RAIL Back On Track http://backontrack.org