❓ Dr. Buti questions the Minister for Transport regarding the Denny Avenue level crossing removal in Kelmscott. The Minister responds by highlighting the opposition's broader, potentially unfunded, commitment to removing all level crossings.
AnsweredQoN 773Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
LEVEL CROSSING — DENNY AVENUE, KELMSCOTT
773. Dr A.D. BUTI to the
Minister for Transport:
I refer to the need to fix the level crossing at Denny Avenue in
Kelmscott.
(1) Is the state government committed to removing the level crossing at
Denny Avenue?
(2) What is the
expected cost for the project?
(3) When will work
commence?
773. Dr A.D. BUTI to the
Minister for Transport:
I refer to the need to fix the level crossing at Denny Avenue in
Kelmscott.
(1) Is the state government committed to removing the level crossing at
Denny Avenue?
(2) What is the
expected cost for the project?
(3) When will work
commence?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(3) It is
really interesting that last week I saw three members opposite put out a press
release —
Point of Order
Dr
A.D. BUTI : I have a point of
relevance. I asked a specific question. Can the minister answer the question?
Several members
interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for
Armadale, I do not know whether you are a mind-reader, but I will give the
minister 60 seconds.
Questions without Notice Resumed
Mr D.C. NALDER : I got half a sentence
out! I think he knows what is embarrassing in this one, because three members
opposite were out saying, as part of their public transport solutions, they are
going to fix every level rail crossing in metropolitan Perth. The member for
Cannington, the member for Victoria Park and the member for West Swan were out
in the press saying that they were going to fix every one. There are 31 of
them! The government has only a rough estimate at the moment, and I have shared
it with members opposite, that the level crossings will cost in the vicinity of
$50 million to $70 million each. If there are 31 of them and let us say they
cost at the upper end, that is $2 billion of the opposition's total
$2.5 billion to fix up an integrated transport solution.
Point of Order
Dr A.D. BUTI : I have a point of relevance.
The SPEAKER : You asked about Denny Avenue.
Dr A.D. BUTI : My question was specifically on Denny
Avenue. The question had three parts on Denny Avenue.
The
SPEAKER : Just address Denny Avenue
now, please.
Questions without Notice Resumed
Mr D.C. NALDER : I think that understanding the context of
all level crossings in the metropolitan area is really important. Denny Avenue
is one of them, and the government has an estimated cost of doing the grade
separation at Denny Avenue of circa $70 million. I have shared that in the
house before. The member has asked a question that we have given the answer to
before.
Yes, it is important,
but so are a number of others. We have a level crossing on Welshpool Road.
After the members' opposite approached someone upstairs and asked him
to follow me up on certain level rail crossings on the Midland line, the media
followed me up. I said, yes, they are important—like all 31 of them are—and
as this city grows and transforms, it is going to need a long-term approach to
get them sorted. It should be, irrespective of members' politics, that
long term we want to see this result. I am not making any promises that I am
delivering all 31 next term, yet I sort of got that sense from the opposition's
press release last week that that is what three members opposite were doing.
The government wants to get on and fix these level crossings, but we are being
responsible and honest about the challenges that we face, and it is
irresponsible of opposition members to say that they are going to do them all
when they cannot.
really interesting that last week I saw three members opposite put out a press
release —
Point of Order
Dr
A.D. BUTI : I have a point of
relevance. I asked a specific question. Can the minister answer the question?
Several members
interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for
Armadale, I do not know whether you are a mind-reader, but I will give the
minister 60 seconds.
Questions without Notice Resumed
Mr D.C. NALDER : I got half a sentence
out! I think he knows what is embarrassing in this one, because three members
opposite were out saying, as part of their public transport solutions, they are
going to fix every level rail crossing in metropolitan Perth. The member for
Cannington, the member for Victoria Park and the member for West Swan were out
in the press saying that they were going to fix every one. There are 31 of
them! The government has only a rough estimate at the moment, and I have shared
it with members opposite, that the level crossings will cost in the vicinity of
$50 million to $70 million each. If there are 31 of them and let us say they
cost at the upper end, that is $2 billion of the opposition's total
$2.5 billion to fix up an integrated transport solution.
Point of Order
Dr A.D. BUTI : I have a point of relevance.
The SPEAKER : You asked about Denny Avenue.
Dr A.D. BUTI : My question was specifically on Denny
Avenue. The question had three parts on Denny Avenue.
The
SPEAKER : Just address Denny Avenue
now, please.
Questions without Notice Resumed
Mr D.C. NALDER : I think that understanding the context of
all level crossings in the metropolitan area is really important. Denny Avenue
is one of them, and the government has an estimated cost of doing the grade
separation at Denny Avenue of circa $70 million. I have shared that in the
house before. The member has asked a question that we have given the answer to
before.
Yes, it is important,
but so are a number of others. We have a level crossing on Welshpool Road.
After the members' opposite approached someone upstairs and asked him
to follow me up on certain level rail crossings on the Midland line, the media
followed me up. I said, yes, they are important—like all 31 of them are—and
as this city grows and transforms, it is going to need a long-term approach to
get them sorted. It should be, irrespective of members' politics, that
long term we want to see this result. I am not making any promises that I am
delivering all 31 next term, yet I sort of got that sense from the opposition's
press release last week that that is what three members opposite were doing.
The government wants to get on and fix these level crossings, but we are being
responsible and honest about the challenges that we face, and it is
irresponsible of opposition members to say that they are going to do them all
when they cannot.
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