❓ The Minister outlines steps taken to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities on the New MetroRail project, including platform tolerances, tactile paving, lifts, ramps, accessible toilets, parking, audio access, and wheelchair access to ticket machines. The Minister also takes a jab at a news crew for parking in a disabled bay.
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NEW METRORAIL - ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Can the minister please inform the Parliament of the steps being taken to ensure adequate access to stations along the New MetroRail route for people with disabilities? Mr A.D. McRAE
Can the minister please inform the Parliament of the steps being taken to ensure adequate access to stations along the New MetroRail route for people with disabilities? Mr A.D. McRAE
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I thank the member for Southern River for some notice of this question. The Carpenter government is dedicated to improving access to government services, including to Parliament. In that regard I advise the Channel Ten crew, whose vehicle was photographed in the parliamentary precinct yesterday parked in a disability parking bay, that they have been dobbed in by their colleagues and I will issue the crew with a yellow card. It is not acceptable and note should be taken to not do it again, regardless of any advice they receive to the contrary. I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE replied: I thank the member for Southern River for some notice of this question. The Carpenter government is dedicated to improving access to government services, including to Parliament. In that regard I advise the Channel Ten crew, whose vehicle was photographed in the parliamentary precinct yesterday parked in a disability parking bay, that they have been dobbed in by their colleagues and I will issue the crew with a yellow card. It is not acceptable and note should be taken to not do it again, regardless of any advice they receive to the contrary. I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
I thank the member for Southern River for some notice of this question. The Carpenter government is dedicated to improving access to government services, including to Parliament. In that regard I advise the Channel Ten crew, whose vehicle was photographed in the parliamentary precinct yesterday parked in a disability parking bay, that they have been dobbed in by their colleagues and I will issue the crew with a yellow card. It is not acceptable and note should be taken to not do it again, regardless of any advice they receive to the contrary. I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
The Carpenter government is dedicated to improving access to government services, including to Parliament. In that regard I advise the Channel Ten crew, whose vehicle was photographed in the parliamentary precinct yesterday parked in a disability parking bay, that they have been dobbed in by their colleagues and I will issue the crew with a yellow card. It is not acceptable and note should be taken to not do it again, regardless of any advice they receive to the contrary. I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE replied: I thank the member for Southern River for some notice of this question. The Carpenter government is dedicated to improving access to government services, including to Parliament. In that regard I advise the Channel Ten crew, whose vehicle was photographed in the parliamentary precinct yesterday parked in a disability parking bay, that they have been dobbed in by their colleagues and I will issue the crew with a yellow card. It is not acceptable and note should be taken to not do it again, regardless of any advice they receive to the contrary. I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
I thank the member for Southern River for some notice of this question. The Carpenter government is dedicated to improving access to government services, including to Parliament. In that regard I advise the Channel Ten crew, whose vehicle was photographed in the parliamentary precinct yesterday parked in a disability parking bay, that they have been dobbed in by their colleagues and I will issue the crew with a yellow card. It is not acceptable and note should be taken to not do it again, regardless of any advice they receive to the contrary. I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
The Carpenter government is dedicated to improving access to government services, including to Parliament. In that regard I advise the Channel Ten crew, whose vehicle was photographed in the parliamentary precinct yesterday parked in a disability parking bay, that they have been dobbed in by their colleagues and I will issue the crew with a yellow card. It is not acceptable and note should be taken to not do it again, regardless of any advice they receive to the contrary. I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
I congratulate the minister whom I assist, the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, on the progress of the project that is now the largest single infrastructure project ever undertaken in this state, and record some of the investment in disability access that has been made in that amazing project that will transform the city. Not only metropolitan dwellers will benefit from that. The southern suburbs railway link is steaming along and we can see progress being made daily. I had the pleasure of the Premier accompanying me to the Leach Highway station, which has emerged above the overpass in the past month or so. People are very excited about the prospect of it. People can see the investment that has been made in the design infrastructure that will ensure people with disabilities have full access to the New MetroRail system. In those stations the tolerance levels, both vertical and horizontal, between trains and station platforms will enable safe and easy access to people with disabilities. There is also a maximum tolerance of 40 millimetres between the train entrance point and the platform. That means that eight-car trains, some of which will pass through those stations in excess of 100 kilometres an hour, are being designed and built to a 40-millimetre tolerance to ensure safety for everybody, particularly people with wheelchairs and other mobility and sight disadvantages. High contrast tactile paving edges have been installed on the edge of platforms, at the top of the stairs and on escalators, ramps and entry lifts. Most of the New MetroRail stations have passenger lifts, which comply with relevant codes of public transport. Ramps with safety guides and handrails also comply with those standards and, where required, ramps with disability access are being constructed with a grade of one in 14. Disability access toilets have been included at every station that has been provided with staff or public toilets. Parking bays have been a priority for disabled - Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : I should think so. Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE : That is absolutely right. Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : What else would you do? Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE : I would have thought it was a cause for some celebration that we are ensuring that, at every point that disability access can be included, it is being included. Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr P.D. Omodei : It should be a given and be done as matter of course. Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
Mr A.D. McRAE : Of course it should be. The Leader of the Opposition and I agree on that, and I am pleased that he agrees with me. We hear people criticising the cost of this project but the additional expense will ensure not only that people with able bodies can enjoy the extraordinary benefits it will bring but also that the design and construction is right for people with disabilities. I am pleased that the Leader of the Opposition supports that and I thank him very much indeed. In addition, we are ensuring audio access, high visibility access for people with limited visual capacity, wheelchair access to ticket machines and audio announcements of passenger information and timetables. The Carpenter government is serious about ensuring equitable access to the greatest public infrastructure project ever built in this state. I would be delighted to hear the Leader of the Opposition reinforce the support he has given to that.
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