Andrew Laming (Bowman, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The suburb of Redland Bay—Queensland's largest—has 15,000 people all having to leave on a single-lane road because of the small thinking of state Labor. This suburb needs roads. They voted for them. They were promised them by Labor, and nothing's eventuated. It's been six years, and there's no road work apart from an 800 metre extension of road duplication.

Take the drive with me from Cleveland: two lanes at South Street, one lane at the bottom of the hill; two lanes at Island Outlook, one lane at the bottom of the hill; two lanes at Ziegenfusz, one lane at Pinklands; two lanes at Waterline, back to one lane at Finlandia; two lanes at Faith Lutheran, back to one lane at Magnolia; two lanes at Benfer, back to one lane at the bottom of the hill; and then two lanes at Giles Street back to one lane again. Labor has the temerity to introduce one more intersection upgrade for another bottleneck at Redland Bay.

This is appalling small thinking about roads driven by minister Mark Bailey. You get the photograph in the local paper of these beleaguered councillors asked to sign off on planning when no money is coming in. You get a state Labor MP, Kim Richards, who says to get councils to get more money out of developers. That upgrades local roads, Kim Richards. He is joined at the hip with Lance Hewlett. They campaigned together for a Victoria Point bypass that now is no bypass whatsoever. Labor can't think about road duplication. They build bus stops the size of the Taj Mahal, but they can't think about local commuters. It's time for a change in Queensland.