This report profiles the town of Tennant Creek and surrounding areas and explores the challenges to improving mobility in the area –challenges compounded by a sheer lack of services such as no public buses and a minimal taxi service. These issues particularly impact on the ability of people to attend health services, affect the mobility of people with disability and have a bearing on other activities such as shopping, particularly during the hot summer months. The lack of transport services contributes to health and social service agency resources being diverted away from their core business in order to respond to unmet transport need
Other issues related to transport need are also explored –including housing and overcrowding, the lack of a mail service and issues around information and coordination. The report also explores transport issues specific to regional and remote areas, where there are no formal transport services and where many people depend on informal transport options such as finding a lift with a private car going into town. The need for improvements in services is clearly evident by the high incidence of people from remote communities being stuck in Tennant Creek and by the high costs associated with travel to and from regional and remote areas due to high fuel prices and the damage vehicles suffer from travelling on rough bush roads and tracks.
The report was an outcome of a project put together and supported by the Northern Territory Council of Social Service
Other issues related to transport need are also explored –including housing and overcrowding, the lack of a mail service and issues around information and coordination. The report also explores transport issues specific to regional and remote areas, where there are no formal transport services and where many people depend on informal transport options such as finding a lift with a private car going into town. The need for improvements in services is clearly evident by the high incidence of people from remote communities being stuck in Tennant Creek and by the high costs associated with travel to and from regional and remote areas due to high fuel prices and the damage vehicles suffer from travelling on rough bush roads and tracks.
The report was an outcome of a project put together and supported by the Northern Territory Council of Social Service
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