❓ Mr. Miles asks about the positive impacts of the government's transport and infrastructure investments on the people of Wanneroo. The Minister for Transport details investments in buses, trains, and roads, highlighting specific benefits for Wanneroo residents.
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TRANSPORT —
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
6. Mr P.T. MILES to the Minister for Transport:
I note the government's record commitment to
transport and infrastructure over the last three years. Can the minister please
outline how this positively impacts the people of Wanneroo in my electorate?
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
6. Mr P.T. MILES to the Minister for Transport:
I note the government's record commitment to
transport and infrastructure over the last three years. Can the minister please
outline how this positively impacts the people of Wanneroo in my electorate?
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That is an absolutely brilliant question. I will run through
some of the details of the government's investment in transport and
then we might look at some of the benefits being enjoyed by the residents of
Wanneroo. We have been up there a few times recently. The residents seem very
happy with their local member and with the government.
Let us start with buses. For the information of members
opposite, they are those big green things. The government has committed $430 million
to replace 650 buses, $90 million to buy another 160 new buses, many of which
are now in Wanneroo, and $87 million to enable them to run around the roads.
That means that those people whom we visited in Banksia Grove now have
much-improved bus services. Those people in Landsdale have new routes that
service them. Those people in Ashby and Tapping, who have never seen a big
green thing in their streets, now have buses. The point I am trying to make is
that that massive investment in buses translates to better transport outcomes
for people in the suburbs of the electorate of the member for Wanneroo.
In relation to trains, we have committed $165 million to buy
45 new railcars.
Mr W.J. Johnston :
Are they in the forward estimates?
Mr T.R. BUSWELL :
They have been ordered. That is where we signed a binding order. If they were
due today, the member for Cannington should have ordered them when he was in
government. Obviously, he did not think they were necessary. A total of $240 million
has been committed to extending the railway line to Butler and $360 million has
been allocated to sinking the railway line in the middle of Perth; a project
that is proceeding exceptionally well. It is on time and on budget. Really
importantly, nearly 3 000 new car parking bays have been built up and down the
Mandurah line. Last week we opened 484 in Stirling, 300 in Greenwood, 210 in
Whitfords and 160 in Edgewater. That is where people park their cars before
they get on the trains—the one thing the Labor Party forgot to build
along train lines.
In relation to roads, $30 million has been committed to widen
the Mitchell Freeway between Hepburn Avenue and Hodges Drive.
Mr A.P. O'Gorman :
That's one-way. You can't get to work on time. You've
got to give them a note.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I
thought the member for Joondalup would pop up. It is not the seventeenth!
I asked Main Roads when was the last time the Mitchell
Freeway was widened. It was widened under the Court government. That means that
the member for Wanneroo's constituents can move backwards and forwards
into the city more quickly. In fact, in relation to local roads, last year we
were up at Lake Joondalup Lifestyle Village, where traffic lights are being put
in so that the people who live there can get in and out of Wanneroo Road
safely. That is something they have been asking for for years. We have just
announced the upgrade of the Flynn Drive and Wanneroo Road intersection, a
project that the Labor mayor for Wanneroo, Mr Kelly, could not deliver. I say
to the member for Mindarie that that is now happening. I am sorry that he
missed out on an invite to that.
Last week the Premier participated, with the member for Ocean
Reef, in the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the state
government, the Department of Planning and the Department of Transport with the
City of Joondalup to deliver that much-needed Ocean Reef marina. The member for
Joondalup says ''no money'', but we believe in planning and
making sure it works, it meets the needs of the local community and it does the
job properly. That is now all in place. I am nearly done. Mr Speaker, can you
imagine my surprise when I pick up the Joondalup
Times and see the newly minted Leader of the Opposition with local MLA Tony
O'Gorman talking about what the government has done. On the same day
that the Premier announced what the City of Joondalup has been asking for for
years and years, he said that progress on the marina facility has been slow. He
said that other major infrastructure such as widening the freeway is not
happening. It is, member for Joondalup!
Mr A.P. O'Gorman :
One way!
Mr T.R. BUSWELL :
The member for Joondalup said that the Wanneroo electorate requires urgent
funding for transport.
I will close with this map—I am holding it up to show
members—of all of the new bus routes that have been put on in the
northern suburbs. It is raining buses in the northern suburbs! The people of
Wanneroo are enjoying the benefit of this government's investment in
public transport, as the member for Wanneroo indicated. It is a record level of
investment in road infrastructure and a record level of investment in public
transport infrastructure.
some of the details of the government's investment in transport and
then we might look at some of the benefits being enjoyed by the residents of
Wanneroo. We have been up there a few times recently. The residents seem very
happy with their local member and with the government.
Let us start with buses. For the information of members
opposite, they are those big green things. The government has committed $430 million
to replace 650 buses, $90 million to buy another 160 new buses, many of which
are now in Wanneroo, and $87 million to enable them to run around the roads.
That means that those people whom we visited in Banksia Grove now have
much-improved bus services. Those people in Landsdale have new routes that
service them. Those people in Ashby and Tapping, who have never seen a big
green thing in their streets, now have buses. The point I am trying to make is
that that massive investment in buses translates to better transport outcomes
for people in the suburbs of the electorate of the member for Wanneroo.
In relation to trains, we have committed $165 million to buy
45 new railcars.
Mr W.J. Johnston :
Are they in the forward estimates?
Mr T.R. BUSWELL :
They have been ordered. That is where we signed a binding order. If they were
due today, the member for Cannington should have ordered them when he was in
government. Obviously, he did not think they were necessary. A total of $240 million
has been committed to extending the railway line to Butler and $360 million has
been allocated to sinking the railway line in the middle of Perth; a project
that is proceeding exceptionally well. It is on time and on budget. Really
importantly, nearly 3 000 new car parking bays have been built up and down the
Mandurah line. Last week we opened 484 in Stirling, 300 in Greenwood, 210 in
Whitfords and 160 in Edgewater. That is where people park their cars before
they get on the trains—the one thing the Labor Party forgot to build
along train lines.
In relation to roads, $30 million has been committed to widen
the Mitchell Freeway between Hepburn Avenue and Hodges Drive.
Mr A.P. O'Gorman :
That's one-way. You can't get to work on time. You've
got to give them a note.
Mr T.R. BUSWELL : I
thought the member for Joondalup would pop up. It is not the seventeenth!
I asked Main Roads when was the last time the Mitchell
Freeway was widened. It was widened under the Court government. That means that
the member for Wanneroo's constituents can move backwards and forwards
into the city more quickly. In fact, in relation to local roads, last year we
were up at Lake Joondalup Lifestyle Village, where traffic lights are being put
in so that the people who live there can get in and out of Wanneroo Road
safely. That is something they have been asking for for years. We have just
announced the upgrade of the Flynn Drive and Wanneroo Road intersection, a
project that the Labor mayor for Wanneroo, Mr Kelly, could not deliver. I say
to the member for Mindarie that that is now happening. I am sorry that he
missed out on an invite to that.
Last week the Premier participated, with the member for Ocean
Reef, in the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the state
government, the Department of Planning and the Department of Transport with the
City of Joondalup to deliver that much-needed Ocean Reef marina. The member for
Joondalup says ''no money'', but we believe in planning and
making sure it works, it meets the needs of the local community and it does the
job properly. That is now all in place. I am nearly done. Mr Speaker, can you
imagine my surprise when I pick up the Joondalup
Times and see the newly minted Leader of the Opposition with local MLA Tony
O'Gorman talking about what the government has done. On the same day
that the Premier announced what the City of Joondalup has been asking for for
years and years, he said that progress on the marina facility has been slow. He
said that other major infrastructure such as widening the freeway is not
happening. It is, member for Joondalup!
Mr A.P. O'Gorman :
One way!
Mr T.R. BUSWELL :
The member for Joondalup said that the Wanneroo electorate requires urgent
funding for transport.
I will close with this map—I am holding it up to show
members—of all of the new bus routes that have been put on in the
northern suburbs. It is raining buses in the northern suburbs! The people of
Wanneroo are enjoying the benefit of this government's investment in
public transport, as the member for Wanneroo indicated. It is a record level of
investment in road infrastructure and a record level of investment in public
transport infrastructure.
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