30 December 2024 – 5 January 2025
Welcome to our first Weekly Wrap for 2025!
Our on-street inspectors kicked off 2025 with a bang after conducting both plain clothes and highly visible operations throughout the holiday season. You can read our holiday period wrap up below.
They also conducted compliance activities at the Australia v India Test, continuing to ensure safe passenger services across the state.
Across the week 30 Dec – 5 January:
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21 breaches were identified
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8 Improvement Notices were issued
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1 Prohibition Notice was issued
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2 alleged ineligible drivers are under review
Howzat! Australia v India Cricket Test – Moore Park
On 3 – 5 January, the India vs Australia Test Match took place at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Moore Park. Huge crowds attended the test across the 3 days of play with 141,000 people watching Australia win not only the match but the series.
While many attendees used public transport to get to and from the cricket ground, point to point transport was still in high demand.
Over the three days, 41 taxis and 91 rideshare vehicles were inspected, with compliance across taxis and rideshare reported as generally good.
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9 fines were issued to rideshare drivers for failing to display a retroreflective sign
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1 prohibition notice was issued to a driver for having worn tyres on their vehicle
Learn more about the dangers of providing passenger services with worn tyres in this Safety alert.
The 2024/25 holiday period
Our on-street inspectors were busy across the holiday period completing almost 700 plain clothes trips during a summer period blitz along with their usual highly visible presence.
For more a more detailed report on compliance activity from 21 November through to New Years Eve, please see the following news article on the website.
Safety Never Stops for the Point to Point Transport Commissioner
Weekly wrap up
Top offences identified
| Driver related offence | |
| Clause 20(2) Hire vehicles ensure retroreflective indicates is a hire vehicle | 13 |
| Clause 67(1) Driver to be hired only at specific zones - Sydney Airport precinct and other airports | 2 |
| Improvement notices | |
| Clause 12(1) Signs, lights and markings - taxis | 2 |
| Clause 18(1) Approved security camera systems and safeguards - taxis in working order | 2 |
| Clause 9 Vehicle maintenance (worn tyres and cracked windscreen) | 2 |