Transport Minister Andrew Constance is being urged to run the CBD light rail beyond 1am to move people from 'alcohol-drenched precincts' once lockout laws are scrapped
Transport Minister Andrew Constance is being urged to run the CBD light rail beyond 1am to move people from "alcohol-drenched precincts" once lockout laws are scrapped.
Transport minister Andrew Constance has been urged to extend the operating hours of the CBD light rail.The CBD light rail will take its first passengers on Saturday, a month before the lockout laws are wound back in the CBD and along Oxford Street. The laws will remain in place in Kings Cross. Mr Hayes said his members in emergency departments and ambulances had "lived the reality of alcohol-fuelled violence".Credit:"Among justifications for lifting the lockout laws is the argument that Sydney needs to be a 24-hour city. Personally, I think this argument is arrant nonsense," Mr Hayes wrote.
Mr Constance said the government would be "assessing demand requirements across all modes of transport across all hours of the week"."We will pay particular attention to changes in requirements because of the night-time economy," Mr Constance said.
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