❓ The Premier outlines how major community infrastructure projects, particularly the new Causeway bridges, will encourage people to visit, study, work, and live in Perth CBD and improve connectivity with Victoria Park. The answer details specific projects and their benefits.
AnsweredQoN 120Legislative Assembly
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PERTH CBD —
COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
120. Ms H.M. BEAZLEY to the Premier:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's record investment in major community infrastructure
projects around the Perth CBD, including the new Causeway pedestrian and
cyclist bridges.
(1) Can the
Premier outline to the house how these major projects will encourage people to
visit, study, work and live in the city?
(2) Can the
Premier advise the house how the new Causeway bridges will boost connectivity
between the city and the wider Victoria Park community?
COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
120. Ms H.M. BEAZLEY to the Premier:
I refer to the McGowan Labor
government's record investment in major community infrastructure
projects around the Perth CBD, including the new Causeway pedestrian and
cyclist bridges.
(1) Can the
Premier outline to the house how these major projects will encourage people to
visit, study, work and live in the city?
(2) Can the
Premier advise the house how the new Causeway bridges will boost connectivity
between the city and the wider Victoria Park community?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2) It has been a big few weeks for Perth. We have had
some of the greatest bands and performers in the world here. We have had
Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper, and a bunch of others
that I have never heard of before but
apparently they are quite significant. We have had the recent UFC bout and we will shortly hold some of the games of the 2023 FIFA Women's World
Cup here in Western Australia.
Last week we started construction of
something that is even more exciting, and that is the new iconic bridges that
will join Victoria Park through to the Perth CBD. We consulted the local
Whadjuk working group, which I think is
termed the Matagarup Elders Group, on design and so forth, and the project will connect Victoria Park at the foreshore at McCallum Park to Heirisson
Island and onto Point Fraser and the Perth CBD. It is jointly funded by the
commonwealth and state with $50 million each. It will be two cable-stayed
bridges providing a six-metre-wide shared path so that people will be able to
cycle and walk across there. We can imagine
that all the people in Victoria Park and Cannington and suburbs beyond who ride their bikes or walk will be able to use
that to access the city. It will provide a new route for activity around
the city with Matagarup Bridge and around. I suspect that it will become a running
and walking track once this is up and operational, and it will make the area
safer because currently riding or walking across the Causeway is not as good as
it could be. That is what will happen.
That is in addition to all the
major projects the government has funded, which total around $2 billion,
including an Aboriginal cultural centre in the city, the repairs and upgrades
to the Perth Concert Hall, the upgrade of the WACA, the upgraded His Majesty's
Theatre, the Art Gallery of Western Australia rooftop activation, the Edith
Cowan University inner-city campus and the East Perth power station and a range of other projects, including some initiatives
for housing and homelessness services in the city. This is one of the
great projects we are putting in place to continue to make Perth one of the
world's great cities.
some of the greatest bands and performers in the world here. We have had
Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper, and a bunch of others
that I have never heard of before but
apparently they are quite significant. We have had the recent UFC bout and we will shortly hold some of the games of the 2023 FIFA Women's World
Cup here in Western Australia.
Last week we started construction of
something that is even more exciting, and that is the new iconic bridges that
will join Victoria Park through to the Perth CBD. We consulted the local
Whadjuk working group, which I think is
termed the Matagarup Elders Group, on design and so forth, and the project will connect Victoria Park at the foreshore at McCallum Park to Heirisson
Island and onto Point Fraser and the Perth CBD. It is jointly funded by the
commonwealth and state with $50 million each. It will be two cable-stayed
bridges providing a six-metre-wide shared path so that people will be able to
cycle and walk across there. We can imagine
that all the people in Victoria Park and Cannington and suburbs beyond who ride their bikes or walk will be able to use
that to access the city. It will provide a new route for activity around
the city with Matagarup Bridge and around. I suspect that it will become a running
and walking track once this is up and operational, and it will make the area
safer because currently riding or walking across the Causeway is not as good as
it could be. That is what will happen.
That is in addition to all the
major projects the government has funded, which total around $2 billion,
including an Aboriginal cultural centre in the city, the repairs and upgrades
to the Perth Concert Hall, the upgrade of the WACA, the upgraded His Majesty's
Theatre, the Art Gallery of Western Australia rooftop activation, the Edith
Cowan University inner-city campus and the East Perth power station and a range of other projects, including some initiatives
for housing and homelessness services in the city. This is one of the
great projects we are putting in place to continue to make Perth one of the
world's great cities.
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