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The Transport Matters Party will constantly strive for improvements to the entire transport and infrastructure network throughout Victoria and Australia; in order to enhance everyone’s quality of life and preserve the environment.

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Single safety test needed for taxi and rideshare vehicles

Transport Matters Party leader Rod Barton has asked the Minister for Public Transport to implement a single annual safety inspection standard for commercial passenger vehicles.... Read more

Ivanhoe Girls Grammar – Safe Public Transport Bill 2019 (Youth Parliament)

I am pleased to rise today to commend a group of talented young women from Ivanhoe Girls Grammar who presented their safe public transport bill to me last week. As part of our Youth Parliament program, the girls debated and passed a bill to implement new safety measures around public... Read more

ADJOURNMENT – Redbook Inspections

The commercial passenger vehicle industry knows that the RedBook inspection makes a mockery of VicRoads’s roadworthy standards. So I ask the minister to take immediate action and stop the regulator undermining the government’s road safety initiatives and VicRoads’ standards on licensed roadworthiness certificates.... Read more

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"We are concerned particularly about safety and particularly about regulations which apply to one sector of the industry
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"The Victorian reforms have struck the right balance between the need for strong safety processes, protections for both consumers and industry participants and the flexibility to deliver innovation for customers" - Kate Stannett, Uber

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