❓ Question regarding the impact of the Southern Rail Link on bus lanes and safety on Kwinana Freeway. Minister responds that rail is the priority and a master plan will address bus services.
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SOUTHERN RAIL LINK, KWINANA FREEWAY BUS LANE
I refer to Labor’s decision to redirect the southern rail link down the centre of the Kwinana Freeway. (1) Does the minister understand that either the dedicated bus lanes from Canning Highway into the city will be scrapped or buses will travel in a narrow, single lane immediately east of the proposed rail line? (2) Is the minister aware that Main Roads has expressed serious concerns about the safety of this proposal because buses will be travelling in conflict with motorists in an opposite direction and will be extremely close to other traffic without safety barriers? (3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN
I refer to Labor’s decision to redirect the southern rail link down the centre of the Kwinana Freeway. (1) Does the minister understand that either the dedicated bus lanes from Canning Highway into the city will be scrapped or buses will travel in a narrow, single lane immediately east of the proposed rail line? (2) Is the minister aware that Main Roads has expressed serious concerns about the safety of this proposal because buses will be travelling in conflict with motorists in an opposite direction and will be extremely close to other traffic without safety barriers? (3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(1) Does the minister understand that either the dedicated bus lanes from Canning Highway into the city will be scrapped or buses will travel in a narrow, single lane immediately east of the proposed rail line? (2) Is the minister aware that Main Roads has expressed serious concerns about the safety of this proposal because buses will be travelling in conflict with motorists in an opposite direction and will be extremely close to other traffic without safety barriers? (3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(2) Is the minister aware that Main Roads has expressed serious concerns about the safety of this proposal because buses will be travelling in conflict with motorists in an opposite direction and will be extremely close to other traffic without safety barriers? (3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(1) Does the minister understand that either the dedicated bus lanes from Canning Highway into the city will be scrapped or buses will travel in a narrow, single lane immediately east of the proposed rail line? (2) Is the minister aware that Main Roads has expressed serious concerns about the safety of this proposal because buses will be travelling in conflict with motorists in an opposite direction and will be extremely close to other traffic without safety barriers? (3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(2) Is the minister aware that Main Roads has expressed serious concerns about the safety of this proposal because buses will be travelling in conflict with motorists in an opposite direction and will be extremely close to other traffic without safety barriers? (3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(3) Will the minister table the advice from Main Roads about this matter? Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Ms MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
I thank the member for Carine for the question. (1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
(1)-(3) We have made it clear that we have made a strategic decision that the primary mode of transport down the centre of Kwinana Freeway will be rail and that we will give primacy not to buses but to rail. That means there will be fewer buses on that route than previously. We are not sure how many bus services down the centre of Kwinana Freeway that we will retain. We will develop the master plan over the next six months. We have explained time and again that we have made the strategic decision to direct our energies to rail and to bring the rail service up the centre of Kwinana Freeway because it will offer a better public transport outcome. It will mean also that $1.2 billion-worth of public investment will attract a larger patronage. That does mean that there will be a transfer from bus to rail. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Mrs Hodson-Thomas: You do not have any figures on that, minister. Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Ms MacTIERNAN: The member for Carine has been given heaps of figures on that. Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Mrs Hodson-Thomas: No substantiated figures. Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
Ms MacTIERNAN: A detailed master plan will be developed in the next six months. That is the way the previous Government dealt with the matter. It made a strategic decision in 1995 and commenced a master plan in 1997. I am asking the member for Carine to wait. She does not believe our figures. In six months our master plan will be completed, and if we get it wrong she can get up in this Parliament and criticise us. However, I can tell the member for Carine that we are confident that the figures will stack up. All the details on ancillary bus services, the bus services that need to be retained and how they will be managed on the freeway will be the subject of detailed planning in the master plan phase. That phase has now begun, it will continue in the next six months and we will release that master plan.
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