How about actually fixing the public transport system itself? Where's our South Morang Line or our Tullamarine Airport line? I heard that reserved roadway for those train tracks might need some attention. I still don't see any of those 6-Carriage peak-hour Upfield trains either. Connex makes $77 billion in profits a year from providing a clearly substandard train service. Morning trains are packed to capacity, while trains are still inaccessible for outer suburban passengers. Increasing the police presence on trains will not solve any of this. To call this bill simply a bandaid solution is an understatement - it's a gross distortion of the current situation. Your "solution" is counterposed to any strategy towards free, accessible public transport. The reason people are choosing cars over public transport is not because there aren't enough cops or CCTV cameras; nor will tightening "security" make trains more accessible in any way. New publicly-funded tollways popping up, and a proposed road tunnel is going to be built - though rightly met with community opposition. Meanwhile, our public transport remains in incompetent private hands. That's the problem here.

Hey Jimmy, Our task was not to form a budget for the Government. Connex will not extend many of its services that are expandable (train lines are a bit iffy because they are running out of room) because people only use them at peak times. We see in the day that busses often have one or two passengers. Private or public who is going to run more busses when no one is on them. In New York we have seen crime rates go down making public transport more accessible and user friendly purely because of police presence. Please do come catch a train to Dandenong with me and let me know if you want CCTV cameras or not.