Page 2780 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 14 August 1990
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Ms Maher: It is.
MR WOOD: Yes, thank you, Ms Maher.
Mr Humphries: What has it got to do with this debate then?
MR WOOD: It is a turn-off from Barry Drive into the University. You would come down there in your bus every day and you would see the turn-off at McCaughey Street and you would notice that. What has happened, of course, is that that has been sitting there for some weeks now unattended.
Ms Maher: It is not Shelleys.
MR WOOD: It is Shelleys.
Ms Maher: It is not Shelleys.
MR WOOD: It is not Shelleys? Well, one of your contractors has dug it up and now has left it and - - -
Ms Maher: They were working on it this morning, Bill.
MR WOOD: Yes, what they have done now is to extend the area of closure across two lanes of the main road into the city.
Ms Maher: They are making it safe.
MR WOOD: They are making it safe and as a result of this much delayed work and the need to make it safe they have caused a massive traffic jam as you come into the city. Let me go to another area where you are maintaining - - -
Mr Kaine: If you are going to dig up the road, Bill, you are going to affect the traffic. You know that.
MR WOOD: Yes, but it has sat there for the best part of two weeks now with nothing happening to it.
Mr Kaine: There may be good reasons for that.
MR WOOD: Yes, good reasons; incompetence on the part of your Government.
Ms Maher: It is the weather. Why do you not talk to him up there?
MR WOOD: The weather - so every bit of road work stops, does it? You know better than that. What about the corner that you spoke to me about up beyond the ABC at the corner of Limestone Avenue? Is that about to start, can you tell me, or is that corner going to be - - -
Mr Berry: No, that is one of the ones that are going to be blocked for ages because of the incompetence of this stupid Minister.
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