BendimoWeekly ISSUE 736 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011
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Pulling out all the stops BENDIGO has one of the finest pipe organs in the country, and it is about to sound out the message for the next generation of music lovers. The newly-created Australian and New Zealand College of Organists is presenting four fundraising concerts to begin a nationwide outreach program providing school students with the chance to experience the nation’s pipe organ heritage. Sacred Heart Cathedral is the venue for one of the concerts, next Friday, November 11 at 7.30pm. Admission is $25/20, school-aged children free. KEY PLAYER: Christopher Cook at the Sacred Heart Cathedral organ.
KEEP TRACK Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
By ANTHONY RADFORD
A NEW plan for the city’s buses could see real-time tracking information sent to the mobile phones of passengers while they wait. Under the plan, passengers waiting for a bus will be told exactly when it will arrive at their stop, and inform them of any delays. The technology is part of a larger bus plan revealed at www.bendigoweekly.com.au on Monday morning.
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Where’s the bus? Check your phone
The plan is council’s latest attempt to ease the chaos created when the Department of Transport re-routed every CBD bus down Mitchell Street more than three years ago. Council seems to be moving away from its old plan to widen the
Mitchell Street footpaths and have the buses stop in the left-hand lane of the busy street. The new plan, which is in its very early stages, involves keeping the bus stops where they are and building two large shelters nearby. One shelter would be built at
the end of the Hargreaves Mall, and another where Mitchell Street and Hargreaves Street meet, narrowing the road but keeping traffic flow. The concept plans, seen by the Bendigo Weekly, also include large screens telling passengers when
their bus is about to arrive, which will allow them to move down to the bus stops. That Integrated Transport System technology will track buses using GPS and relay that information to the large screens. It will also allow that same information to be sent to mobile phones for any Bendigo bus stop and route. Continued Page 5 TWO WAY STREET Page 5
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