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NEW SOUTH WALES NEWS SENIORS TRAVEL NSW Regional Seniors Travel Card Goes Live! Applications for the NSW Regional Seniors Travel Card opened on 29 January 2020 and since then around more than 100,000 rural and senior applicants have signed up for the travel card with thousands more applying every day. The eligible rural and senior applicants will soon be receiving their cards, which could be used by them at certain retailers across Australia, and to pay for fuel, taxis as well as pre-booked NSW TrainLink regional trains and coaches. In total, there are around 400,000 eligible applicants across NSW. This initiative of the government will provide much needed assistance to the seniors in rural, regional and remote NSW. Based on applications till now, the utilisation of Regional Seniors Travel Card is expected to overall inject around $25 million to the regional and rural NSW economy. It is understood that this benefit is set to further expand to include veterans and war widows in the next three months, as more eligible applicants from regional NSW start applying, receiving and using the travel cards. This initiative of the NSW government will be of great assistance to the seniors and to the overall economy of regional, rural and remote NSW, which has been terribly impacted by the recent bushfires and floods. 28 DRIVE A2B magazine · March 2020
PERSONNEL PROFILE Get ToKnow Steve Elliott Director Major Events Transport for NSW – Transport Management Centre Who is someone you admire, and why? Paul McCartney, the greatest singer/songwriter/musician of all time ….. and yes he was also in that band …… You know the one? …… Wings. Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? I am in a band with my wife and friends called ‘Back in Five’. I play the Rock Cajon, Drums and Percussion and sing the odd vocal. If you could be anywhere other than here, right this minute, where would you be? Japan…. anywhere in Japan. I love Japan. Flashback to when you were 10 years old. What do you want to be when you grow up? I actually wanted to be a Cartographer, a map maker. I loved reading maps, historical maps and street directories. After I left school I became a Road Design Officer which was a close match with Cartography. I was designing the roads to go on maps. With my love and knowledge of the road network I would have made a great Taxi Driver. Finish this sentence. On Sunday mornings, you can usually find me... If I am not working on a Special Event you would find me out and about walking my Border Collie named Badger, getting my daily steps up, and stopping for a Skinny Cap at the numerous coffee shops in my neighbourhood. What’s a goal you have for yourself that you want to accomplish in the next year? I am going on a holiday with my sister to Canada in May. My first holiday with her since we were kids. She has MS and wheelchair accessibility needs, and it’s important to go now with her while she can still get around. She has never travelled further than NZ so this is a once in a lifetime bucket list trip for her. I will be a great tour guide. I have been employed in the Transport Management Centre (TMC) since May 1998 and have seen its transition from the Road Traffic Authority (RTA) to (Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) to Transport for NSW (TfNSW). I commenced in the TMC over 12 months before the building officially opened in September 1999, which was just before we held the large Year 2000 Millennium New Year’s Eve, the Y2K bug was looming large, and the Sydney Olympic Games were just around the corner. Prior to the TMC I have worked in various offices for the Department of Main Roads, Roads and Traffic Authority, and Gosford City Council. DRIVE A2B magazine · March 2020 29
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