❓ Question regarding the selection of Forrestfield as the starting point for the Forrestfield-Airport Link. The Minister's answer defends the decision, highlighting practical reasons and criticising the opposition's lack of support and past inaction.
AnsweredQoN 564Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
FORRESTFIELD–AIRPORT
LINK PLAN
564. MR N.W. MORTON to the
Minister for Transport:
Can the minister please outline to the house why Forrestfield
was chosen as the starting location for the very important Forrestfield–Airport
Link?
LINK PLAN
564. MR N.W. MORTON to the
Minister for Transport:
Can the minister please outline to the house why Forrestfield
was chosen as the starting location for the very important Forrestfield–Airport
Link?
AnswerView source ↗
Thank you, Mr Speaker, and I thank the member for the
question.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
Member for Mandurah!
Mr D.C. NALDER : I
thank the member for Forrestfield for the question because the Forrestfield–Airport
Link will transform the way the community out his way will move around our
city. By 2021 we will have 20 000 passengers a day on the Forrestfield–Airport
Link. Is it amazing that so much negativity is coming from the other side, and
I cannot understand that. We are delivering on a project to an area that the
Labor Party ignored for the two terms that it was in government. The Labor
Party failed to deliver, exactly the same as it failed to deliver for the
people of Collie on the Coalfields highway—absolutely nothing while it
was in government. It takes the Liberal–National government to be able
to deliver a project to the eastern suburbs of Perth, just like we are building
a hospital out at Midland.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Victoria Park!
Mr D.C. NALDER :
Just like the funding we are doing on the roads out on the Gateway WA project.
The Labor Party failed.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Joondalup, I call you to order for the first time.
Member for Warnbro!
Mr
D.C. NALDER : There are a few reasons we are starting out at Forrestfield.
The first one is that it is practical for a tunnel operation.
Mr
B.S. Wyatt interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, I call you to order now for the third
time.
Mr
D.C. NALDER : The construction of the tunnel launch structure and the
assembly of the tunnel boring machines will commence out there, so it is
important because it is practical. We are also in negotiations with the airport
for the spoil of the tunnel to be used potentially for the third runway. We are
starting in Forrestfield because it is a practical solution.
There are also positive comments
coming back from people out in the eastern suburbs that the member for
Forrestfield has provided to me, and I would like to share a couple. Here are
some of the quotes: ''Great decision'', ''Fantastic work''
—
Mr
W.J. Johnston interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Cannington!
Mr
D.C. NALDER : I continue with the comments: ''Sounds awesome'',
''It will make it easier to get to work from my boyfriend's'',
''A fine decision'', ''Damn it, there is no 'like'
button on emails'' and ''Very exciting times for our city''.
One of those emails —
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Maylands and member for Mirrabooka, I call you both to
order for the first time. A shortened version of the quotes, minister, thank
you.
Mr
D.C. NALDER : I will wind up on those quotes, but there are many, many more.
The people out there are actually warming to this project because they know it
is fantastic. Some of these people come from other electorates, such as that of
the member for West Swan. We have responses from her electorate telling us how
fantastic this project is. I cannot understand why the opposition is pouring so
much cold water. Is it that opposition members are listening to their spiritual
leader who is telling them that we should not do this? I would love to understand
whether the Leader of the Opposition agrees with Alannah MacTiernan that this
project should not go ahead. We committed to doing it and the Labor Party does
not want to deliver it; it has delivered nothing for the eastern suburbs for so
long.
question.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Members!
Member for Mandurah!
Mr D.C. NALDER : I
thank the member for Forrestfield for the question because the Forrestfield–Airport
Link will transform the way the community out his way will move around our
city. By 2021 we will have 20 000 passengers a day on the Forrestfield–Airport
Link. Is it amazing that so much negativity is coming from the other side, and
I cannot understand that. We are delivering on a project to an area that the
Labor Party ignored for the two terms that it was in government. The Labor
Party failed to deliver, exactly the same as it failed to deliver for the
people of Collie on the Coalfields highway—absolutely nothing while it
was in government. It takes the Liberal–National government to be able
to deliver a project to the eastern suburbs of Perth, just like we are building
a hospital out at Midland.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Victoria Park!
Mr D.C. NALDER :
Just like the funding we are doing on the roads out on the Gateway WA project.
The Labor Party failed.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Joondalup, I call you to order for the first time.
Member for Warnbro!
Mr
D.C. NALDER : There are a few reasons we are starting out at Forrestfield.
The first one is that it is practical for a tunnel operation.
Mr
B.S. Wyatt interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Victoria Park, I call you to order now for the third
time.
Mr
D.C. NALDER : The construction of the tunnel launch structure and the
assembly of the tunnel boring machines will commence out there, so it is
important because it is practical. We are also in negotiations with the airport
for the spoil of the tunnel to be used potentially for the third runway. We are
starting in Forrestfield because it is a practical solution.
There are also positive comments
coming back from people out in the eastern suburbs that the member for
Forrestfield has provided to me, and I would like to share a couple. Here are
some of the quotes: ''Great decision'', ''Fantastic work''
—
Mr
W.J. Johnston interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Cannington!
Mr
D.C. NALDER : I continue with the comments: ''Sounds awesome'',
''It will make it easier to get to work from my boyfriend's'',
''A fine decision'', ''Damn it, there is no 'like'
button on emails'' and ''Very exciting times for our city''.
One of those emails —
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Maylands and member for Mirrabooka, I call you both to
order for the first time. A shortened version of the quotes, minister, thank
you.
Mr
D.C. NALDER : I will wind up on those quotes, but there are many, many more.
The people out there are actually warming to this project because they know it
is fantastic. Some of these people come from other electorates, such as that of
the member for West Swan. We have responses from her electorate telling us how
fantastic this project is. I cannot understand why the opposition is pouring so
much cold water. Is it that opposition members are listening to their spiritual
leader who is telling them that we should not do this? I would love to understand
whether the Leader of the Opposition agrees with Alannah MacTiernan that this
project should not go ahead. We committed to doing it and the Labor Party does
not want to deliver it; it has delivered nothing for the eastern suburbs for so
long.
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