Council pushes for Brisbane bus drivers to get vaccine priority

While the use of public transport was increasing, lord mayor Adrian Schrinner said giving bus drivers the vaccine jab would encourage more commuters back to public transport.

“Council is gearing up our efforts and working with Queensland Health to ask for our bus operators to be amongst the first people to receive that voluntary vaccine that will be rolled out because they are frontline workers,” he said.

“As we have, from next month, the vaccine starting to be rolled out in our community, we now have the opportunity for a higher level of confidence to come back to our public transport.

“We know that confidence is a critical issue here. We know that in recent times there was advice from the Chief Health Officer and a directive to…