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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.
Former Department of Premier and Cabinet boss Nick Reade has been appointed CEO of the state’s peak motoring body.
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.