Western Sydney bus drivers get first female toilets and new meal rooms

Source: Mental Health Australia

Female bus drivers in Sydney’s west have access to dedicated toilets for the first time as the NSW Government begins to roll out almost $18 million in new break facilities at 34 locations across the city.

Improved rest facilities were a recommendation of Labor’s Bus Industry Taskforce which heard concerning stories of drivers taking buckets on the road with them and hundreds of drivers sharing a single portaloo in Parramatta for 15 years.

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