❓ Mr. Hyde asks about the completion of the city tunnel for the New MetroRail project. Ms. MacTiernan provides details on the project's progress, highlighting its timely completion and future steps, while also making a somewhat cryptic remark about Kerry Stokes and The West Australian.
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NEW METRORAIL - COMPLETION OF CITY TUNNEL
Today The West Australian and its excellent award - winning - and Australia’s pre - eminent - cartoonist Alston reported on the city tunnel breakthrough on the New MetroRail project. Will the minister please provide the house with more details about this very important milestone in my electorate? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Today The West Australian and its excellent award - winning - and Australia’s pre - eminent - cartoonist Alston reported on the city tunnel breakthrough on the New MetroRail project. Will the minister please provide the house with more details about this very important milestone in my electorate? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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All I can say is - bring on Kerry Stokes! For everyone other than our friends at The West Australian , the completion of the city tunnel was very good news. The second of the rail tunnels has now been completed. That portion of the project has been done in record time. The tunnelling started on 25 October 2005 and, in an act of perfect symmetry, it was completed on 24 October 2006. That completion time was quicker than even the most optimistic estimate. Several members interjected. Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: All I can say is - bring on Kerry Stokes! For everyone other than our friends at The West Australian , the completion of the city tunnel was very good news. The second of the rail tunnels has now been completed. That portion of the project has been done in record time. The tunnelling started on 25 October 2005 and, in an act of perfect symmetry, it was completed on 24 October 2006. That completion time was quicker than even the most optimistic estimate. Several members interjected. Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
All I can say is - bring on Kerry Stokes! For everyone other than our friends at The West Australian , the completion of the city tunnel was very good news. The second of the rail tunnels has now been completed. That portion of the project has been done in record time. The tunnelling started on 25 October 2005 and, in an act of perfect symmetry, it was completed on 24 October 2006. That completion time was quicker than even the most optimistic estimate. Several members interjected. Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Several members interjected. Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: All I can say is - bring on Kerry Stokes! For everyone other than our friends at The West Australian , the completion of the city tunnel was very good news. The second of the rail tunnels has now been completed. That portion of the project has been done in record time. The tunnelling started on 25 October 2005 and, in an act of perfect symmetry, it was completed on 24 October 2006. That completion time was quicker than even the most optimistic estimate. Several members interjected. Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
All I can say is - bring on Kerry Stokes! For everyone other than our friends at The West Australian , the completion of the city tunnel was very good news. The second of the rail tunnels has now been completed. That portion of the project has been done in record time. The tunnelling started on 25 October 2005 and, in an act of perfect symmetry, it was completed on 24 October 2006. That completion time was quicker than even the most optimistic estimate. Several members interjected. Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Several members interjected. Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Mr J.N. Hyde : This is important. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : Thank you, member for Perth. The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
The completion of one of the most challenging aspects of the project means the completion of all the major structural work associated with this project. Within the next few weeks, our good friend Wes, the tunnel boring machine, will be dismantled and the fitting out of the concrete structures will begin, the rail track laid and all the ventilation and architectural finishes done. I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
I have some very interesting statistics on the project in general. A total of 140 kilometres of track had to be laid on the project, and so far 131 kilometres have been completed. Around 93 per cent of the rail track has already been laid. The project is progressing very well. Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms K. Hodson-Thomas interjected. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It has been a tough project. The member for Carine and many other members have been lining up asking the government whether they can ride on the first train. We will seek to accommodate those members. This is a great project. It looks as though it is very much now on target for our new trains to begin running up and down the track in April. We therefore fully expect that services will be up and running at the beginning of July 2007.
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