❓ Minister MacTiernan provides an update on the Indian Ocean Drive project, highlighting progress on stage 2, Mimegarra Road completion timelines, Main Roads' direct management role, and positive local business engagement. The project is seen as beneficial for tourism and economic development.
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INDIAN OCEAN DRIVE
Will the minister please advise the house of recent progress towards the completion of Indian Ocean Drive? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Will the minister please advise the house of recent progress towards the completion of Indian Ocean Drive? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question and for his excellent assistance today on the road when we arrived with our shovels. Unfortunately, the member for Moore was not able to be with us. The member for Greenough was there to celebrate this very great occasion of starting construction on stage 2 of the Lancelin-Cervantes road—the final 55 kilometres of sealed road and about 20 kilometres of side roads. I want to commend the member for Geraldton for the very strong role he played as an advocate for this project, because he recognises the advantages of this for his community of Geraldton. Of course, we as a government recognise the importance of this road to the economic development of those towns of Lancelin, Cervantes and Jurien. I am not sure that the people of Wedge Island were that keen on the road, but everyone else is. It is an excellent project. I want to make a couple of other comments about this project. Firstly, we will have the first part of Mimegarra Road completed at about April of next year. We will open the first part of that road at that time, so there will be access in and out of Mimegarra Road. For the next tranche we have a scheduled completion for June-July 2011, but we believe we can do better than that. Another significant factor with this particular road project is that it will be directly managed by Main Roads. As members know, under the previous government there was a dismantling of Main Roads’ capacity, and we need to rebuild that. It is certainly our intention that, generally speaking, the majority of road projects be delivered by the private sector, but if Main Roads is to be an informed client, it really does need to be able to participate in the pointy end of the road-building business. This is the first project in the southern half of the state since the dreadful day when Main Roads was disaggregated that will be built under the direct management of Main Roads. People are very excited about it. All the design work has been done in-house. We have had an enormous response from local and small businesses. We recently sent out a tender for plant operators and plant hire and we got 70 responses. I think that is the record number of responses that Main Roads has ever had to a tender, so it is really enabling those smaller companies to get into the business of road building. It is a great project for tourism and the economic development of the central coast and, of course, a great opportunity for Main Roads to really rebuild that strength.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question and for his excellent assistance today on the road when we arrived with our shovels. Unfortunately, the member for Moore was not able to be with us. The member for Greenough was there to celebrate this very great occasion of starting construction on stage 2 of the Lancelin-Cervantes road—the final 55 kilometres of sealed road and about 20 kilometres of side roads. I want to commend the member for Geraldton for the very strong role he played as an advocate for this project, because he recognises the advantages of this for his community of Geraldton. Of course, we as a government recognise the importance of this road to the economic development of those towns of Lancelin, Cervantes and Jurien. I am not sure that the people of Wedge Island were that keen on the road, but everyone else is. It is an excellent project. I want to make a couple of other comments about this project. Firstly, we will have the first part of Mimegarra Road completed at about April of next year. We will open the first part of that road at that time, so there will be access in and out of Mimegarra Road. For the next tranche we have a scheduled completion for June-July 2011, but we believe we can do better than that. Another significant factor with this particular road project is that it will be directly managed by Main Roads. As members know, under the previous government there was a dismantling of Main Roads’ capacity, and we need to rebuild that. It is certainly our intention that, generally speaking, the majority of road projects be delivered by the private sector, but if Main Roads is to be an informed client, it really does need to be able to participate in the pointy end of the road-building business. This is the first project in the southern half of the state since the dreadful day when Main Roads was disaggregated that will be built under the direct management of Main Roads. People are very excited about it. All the design work has been done in-house. We have had an enormous response from local and small businesses. We recently sent out a tender for plant operators and plant hire and we got 70 responses. I think that is the record number of responses that Main Roads has ever had to a tender, so it is really enabling those smaller companies to get into the business of road building. It is a great project for tourism and the economic development of the central coast and, of course, a great opportunity for Main Roads to really rebuild that strength.
I thank the member for the question and for his excellent assistance today on the road when we arrived with our shovels. Unfortunately, the member for Moore was not able to be with us. The member for Greenough was there to celebrate this very great occasion of starting construction on stage 2 of the Lancelin-Cervantes road—the final 55 kilometres of sealed road and about 20 kilometres of side roads. I want to commend the member for Geraldton for the very strong role he played as an advocate for this project, because he recognises the advantages of this for his community of Geraldton. Of course, we as a government recognise the importance of this road to the economic development of those towns of Lancelin, Cervantes and Jurien. I am not sure that the people of Wedge Island were that keen on the road, but everyone else is. It is an excellent project. I want to make a couple of other comments about this project. Firstly, we will have the first part of Mimegarra Road completed at about April of next year. We will open the first part of that road at that time, so there will be access in and out of Mimegarra Road. For the next tranche we have a scheduled completion for June-July 2011, but we believe we can do better than that. Another significant factor with this particular road project is that it will be directly managed by Main Roads. As members know, under the previous government there was a dismantling of Main Roads’ capacity, and we need to rebuild that. It is certainly our intention that, generally speaking, the majority of road projects be delivered by the private sector, but if Main Roads is to be an informed client, it really does need to be able to participate in the pointy end of the road-building business. This is the first project in the southern half of the state since the dreadful day when Main Roads was disaggregated that will be built under the direct management of Main Roads. People are very excited about it. All the design work has been done in-house. We have had an enormous response from local and small businesses. We recently sent out a tender for plant operators and plant hire and we got 70 responses. I think that is the record number of responses that Main Roads has ever had to a tender, so it is really enabling those smaller companies to get into the business of road building. It is a great project for tourism and the economic development of the central coast and, of course, a great opportunity for Main Roads to really rebuild that strength.
I want to make a couple of other comments about this project. Firstly, we will have the first part of Mimegarra Road completed at about April of next year. We will open the first part of that road at that time, so there will be access in and out of Mimegarra Road. For the next tranche we have a scheduled completion for June-July 2011, but we believe we can do better than that. Another significant factor with this particular road project is that it will be directly managed by Main Roads. As members know, under the previous government there was a dismantling of Main Roads’ capacity, and we need to rebuild that. It is certainly our intention that, generally speaking, the majority of road projects be delivered by the private sector, but if Main Roads is to be an informed client, it really does need to be able to participate in the pointy end of the road-building business. This is the first project in the southern half of the state since the dreadful day when Main Roads was disaggregated that will be built under the direct management of Main Roads. People are very excited about it. All the design work has been done in-house. We have had an enormous response from local and small businesses. We recently sent out a tender for plant operators and plant hire and we got 70 responses. I think that is the record number of responses that Main Roads has ever had to a tender, so it is really enabling those smaller companies to get into the business of road building. It is a great project for tourism and the economic development of the central coast and, of course, a great opportunity for Main Roads to really rebuild that strength.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question and for his excellent assistance today on the road when we arrived with our shovels. Unfortunately, the member for Moore was not able to be with us. The member for Greenough was there to celebrate this very great occasion of starting construction on stage 2 of the Lancelin-Cervantes road—the final 55 kilometres of sealed road and about 20 kilometres of side roads. I want to commend the member for Geraldton for the very strong role he played as an advocate for this project, because he recognises the advantages of this for his community of Geraldton. Of course, we as a government recognise the importance of this road to the economic development of those towns of Lancelin, Cervantes and Jurien. I am not sure that the people of Wedge Island were that keen on the road, but everyone else is. It is an excellent project. I want to make a couple of other comments about this project. Firstly, we will have the first part of Mimegarra Road completed at about April of next year. We will open the first part of that road at that time, so there will be access in and out of Mimegarra Road. For the next tranche we have a scheduled completion for June-July 2011, but we believe we can do better than that. Another significant factor with this particular road project is that it will be directly managed by Main Roads. As members know, under the previous government there was a dismantling of Main Roads’ capacity, and we need to rebuild that. It is certainly our intention that, generally speaking, the majority of road projects be delivered by the private sector, but if Main Roads is to be an informed client, it really does need to be able to participate in the pointy end of the road-building business. This is the first project in the southern half of the state since the dreadful day when Main Roads was disaggregated that will be built under the direct management of Main Roads. People are very excited about it. All the design work has been done in-house. We have had an enormous response from local and small businesses. We recently sent out a tender for plant operators and plant hire and we got 70 responses. I think that is the record number of responses that Main Roads has ever had to a tender, so it is really enabling those smaller companies to get into the business of road building. It is a great project for tourism and the economic development of the central coast and, of course, a great opportunity for Main Roads to really rebuild that strength.
I thank the member for the question and for his excellent assistance today on the road when we arrived with our shovels. Unfortunately, the member for Moore was not able to be with us. The member for Greenough was there to celebrate this very great occasion of starting construction on stage 2 of the Lancelin-Cervantes road—the final 55 kilometres of sealed road and about 20 kilometres of side roads. I want to commend the member for Geraldton for the very strong role he played as an advocate for this project, because he recognises the advantages of this for his community of Geraldton. Of course, we as a government recognise the importance of this road to the economic development of those towns of Lancelin, Cervantes and Jurien. I am not sure that the people of Wedge Island were that keen on the road, but everyone else is. It is an excellent project. I want to make a couple of other comments about this project. Firstly, we will have the first part of Mimegarra Road completed at about April of next year. We will open the first part of that road at that time, so there will be access in and out of Mimegarra Road. For the next tranche we have a scheduled completion for June-July 2011, but we believe we can do better than that. Another significant factor with this particular road project is that it will be directly managed by Main Roads. As members know, under the previous government there was a dismantling of Main Roads’ capacity, and we need to rebuild that. It is certainly our intention that, generally speaking, the majority of road projects be delivered by the private sector, but if Main Roads is to be an informed client, it really does need to be able to participate in the pointy end of the road-building business. This is the first project in the southern half of the state since the dreadful day when Main Roads was disaggregated that will be built under the direct management of Main Roads. People are very excited about it. All the design work has been done in-house. We have had an enormous response from local and small businesses. We recently sent out a tender for plant operators and plant hire and we got 70 responses. I think that is the record number of responses that Main Roads has ever had to a tender, so it is really enabling those smaller companies to get into the business of road building. It is a great project for tourism and the economic development of the central coast and, of course, a great opportunity for Main Roads to really rebuild that strength.
I want to make a couple of other comments about this project. Firstly, we will have the first part of Mimegarra Road completed at about April of next year. We will open the first part of that road at that time, so there will be access in and out of Mimegarra Road. For the next tranche we have a scheduled completion for June-July 2011, but we believe we can do better than that. Another significant factor with this particular road project is that it will be directly managed by Main Roads. As members know, under the previous government there was a dismantling of Main Roads’ capacity, and we need to rebuild that. It is certainly our intention that, generally speaking, the majority of road projects be delivered by the private sector, but if Main Roads is to be an informed client, it really does need to be able to participate in the pointy end of the road-building business. This is the first project in the southern half of the state since the dreadful day when Main Roads was disaggregated that will be built under the direct management of Main Roads. People are very excited about it. All the design work has been done in-house. We have had an enormous response from local and small businesses. We recently sent out a tender for plant operators and plant hire and we got 70 responses. I think that is the record number of responses that Main Roads has ever had to a tender, so it is really enabling those smaller companies to get into the business of road building. It is a great project for tourism and the economic development of the central coast and, of course, a great opportunity for Main Roads to really rebuild that strength.
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