Luke Hartsuyker (Cowper, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes:

(a)

that the Pacific Highway is a State road designed, built, owned, and maintained by the New South Wales State Government;

(b)

that there have been unacceptable delays and substantial cost over-runs in the upgrade of the Pacific Highway to dual carriageway standard from Hexham to the Queensland border;

(c)

notwithstanding that the Pacific Highway is a state road, the Australian Government has made a substantial commitment to the upgrade under the Pacific Highway Reconstruction Program Agreement and Auslink;

(d)

that there have been unacceptable delays to the commencement of work on by-passing population centres along the highway;

(e)

tenders have been received for the construction of the Bonville Deviation and the State Minister for Roads, Mr Tripodi, plans to delay commencement of works until mid 2006; and

(f)

the public consultation process has failed to achieve route outcomes which are acceptable to communities along the highway; and

(2)

calls on the New South Wales Labor Government to:

(a)

exercise more stringent cost and project management control over the highway upgrade; and

(b)

accelerate progress on this upgrade with a view to completing a dual carriageway between Hexham and the Queensland border by 2016. (Notice given 8 February 2006.)

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