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Business
Ex-top bureaucrat takes a different road
Former Department of Premier and Cabinet boss Nick Reade has been appointed CEO of the state’s peak motoring body.
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Former Department of Premier and Cabinet boss Nick Reade has been appointed CEO of the state’s peak motoring body.
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Almost eight in 10 South Australian motorists would consider buying an electric car, despite only a quarter having ever driven one, new data from the RAA shows.
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The RAA is calling on the State Government to introduce a new tap-and-pay system on buses and trains and to fund councils to install more bus shelters, after public transport patronage plummeted over the COVID-19 pandemic.
There has been a 15 per cent increase since 2017 in fines issued to drivers for being distracted on South Australian roads, according to the RAA.
New data showing nearly a fifth of the state’s collisions involving pedestrians occur in the Adelaide City Council area have prompted a call to reduce the city’s default speed limit to 40km/h.
It’s no wonder that public transport users are the bottom of the policy pile when the best-connected and most well-resourced transport lobby group in South Australia represents motorists.
