❓ A parliamentary question regarding the ban of trucks on Leach Highway and its impact on businesses and traffic flow, with the Minister responding by outlining the Roe Highway extension and enforcement plans.
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I refer the minister to comments made by Jim McGiveron of the Transport Workers’ Union when he stated - Leach Highway is not just a problem for nearby residents, it’s also a pain . . . for truckies . . . . But the Kwinana Freeway detour is not the answer. . . . . . . . . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums . (1) How is the plan to ban trucks from Leach Highway between the Albany Highway intersection and Kwinana Freeway intersection going to be enforced? (2) How are trucks going to service the major shopping precincts of Booragoon and Riverton when the ban comes into force? (3) Will the minister take a fresh look at extending Roe Highway through to the freeway as demanded by the Transport Workers’ Union? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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(1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
. . . But the Kwinana Freeway detour is not the answer. . . . . . . . . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
But the Kwinana Freeway detour is not the answer. . . . . . . . . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
. . . . . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
. . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
(2) How are trucks going to service the major shopping precincts of Booragoon and Riverton when the ban comes into force? (3) Will the minister take a fresh look at extending Roe Highway through to the freeway as demanded by the Transport Workers’ Union? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: (1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
(3) Will the minister take a fresh look at extending Roe Highway through to the freeway as demanded by the Transport Workers’ Union? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: (1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: (1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
(1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
. . . But the Kwinana Freeway detour is not the answer. . . . . . . . . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
But the Kwinana Freeway detour is not the answer. . . . . . . . . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
. . . . . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
. . . There are no train tracks running past the Riverton and Booragoon Shopping Forums .
(2) How are trucks going to service the major shopping precincts of Booragoon and Riverton when the ban comes into force? (3) Will the minister take a fresh look at extending Roe Highway through to the freeway as demanded by the Transport Workers’ Union? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: (1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
(3) Will the minister take a fresh look at extending Roe Highway through to the freeway as demanded by the Transport Workers’ Union? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: (1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: (1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
(1)-(3) I am very pleased to advise the member, who is obviously keeping his finger on the pulse and doing his research, as good drones should! The government let the contract last year for the construction of Roe Highway stage 7. I am pleased to advise that by early next year we will have the Roe Highway extension to the Kwinana Freeway as requested. Concerning how the ban will be implemented, it will be done in the same way as we implement traffic restrictions around the metropolitan area. We will have a series of regulations that will make it very clear what traffic is allowed to use the route. There are restrictions on all sorts of vehicles. There is nothing new about this. A government member interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is right. The Leader of the Opposition presides over a virtually all-male caucus, with some exceptions. He is setting the tone. He has a reputation of being a womaniser; I think he spread that rumour himself! Many might think that it is a case of “he protesteth too much”! On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
On the serious matter of Leach Highway, the member is absolutely correct. The highway is a very difficult road. As part of the package we are putting forward, there is a range of works, particularly at the eastern end, to make the Kewdale area much more functional to ease the burden for truck drivers. Quite frankly, we have built Roe Highway as a truck route and we are going to make sure that trucks use it. We are not going to spend all that money building the highway and then tell people they do not have to bother using it. I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
I will clarify for the member exactly what the plan entails. It was set out clearly on the day. First of all, it applies to articulated vehicles because the issue is containers going to the port. It applies only to articulated vehicles of 19 metres or more in length; that is, semitrailers, B-doubles and road trains. It does not apply to non-articulated vehicles nor does it apply to vehicles that have a trip that originates or has a destination within the precinct. It will be the policy; there will be a set of regulations that are aimed at container trucks that are travelling between Kewdale and the port. It is perfectly implementable and I look forward to working with all interested members to make sure we get this absolutely right.
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