Andrew Wilkie (Clark, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Mercifully, my question is to the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts. The Tasmanian government is stuffing up the Hobart City Deal by failing to decide how to spend the $25 million federal funding for the Northern Suburbs Transit Corridor and by its bizarre decision to spend $35 million of state funding on a fifth lane to the Southern Outlet. The Southern Outlet plan is especially unfathomable, as all it will do is see many homes demolished and more vehicles squeezed into the already gridlocked Macquarie and Davey streets. The city deal is a working partnership between all levels of government, but the Tasmanian government is clearly out of its depth. So I ask: please, Minister, will you intervene and help sort it out? (Time expired)

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