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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 7 Hansard (24 June) . . Page.. 2354 ..
MR CORNWELL
(continuing):I ask the minister: when are you going to upgrade Majura Road? This seems to me to be the sensible way to approach this whole question. We do need to take the heavy traffic off Fairbairn Avenue because, if we don't do it by making it a double lane all the way along Fairbairn Avenue-and I don't suggest for a moment that that's a sensible idea-we may find that that traffic is re-routed down Anzac Avenue and, therefore, around the Russell roundabout. I repeat: I think the solution is the Majura Road upgrade.
The last comment I'd like to make, Mr Speaker, relates to road cycling. I commend the government for providing $2.5 million for the Woden to Dickson cycle path and $600,000 for on-road cycling on Belconnen Way and Barry Drive. However, I do think it would be useful if we could encourage cyclists to use their special cycle paths as opposed to using the roads. I have made public statements about this. It does appear to me that most cyclists are using the special cycle paths, and I commend them for that.
I'm heartened, I must say, by the fact that Pedal Power has been in touch with me on this matter. Minister, I would welcome a comment from you, if it is possible to make a comment, about the problem that Pedal Power have drawn to my attention. They have said that one of the reasons why cyclists don't use the cycle path, the cycle area, the cycle lanes that have been created for them is something called glass-broken bottles and such like. I don't know what the answer to that is-whether more regular street sweeping or something like that might be required-but you might like to give your attention to it and address it a little, with about the same enthusiasm as you are applying to the book you are reading at the moment, minister.
Seriously, I think this is a matter that should be considered, Mr Speaker, because clearly cyclists won't use the lanes that are provided if some lout has hurled a few bottles down there and broken glass, et cetera, for them. You may like to address it. I will now conclude on that point and trust that the minister is finishing the chapter he's reading.
MR HARGREAVES
(8.55): Mr Speaker, there are a number of things I like about the game of politics. One is being misquoted; another one is being selectively quoted; and another one is being Gary-ed. I really get annoyed when people try to Gary things that I've said.Ms MacDonald
: Were you Gary-ed?MR HARGREAVES
: I was Gary-ed, Ms MacDonald-grossly, unabashedly and unashamedly Gary-ed.I'd like, if I could, Mr Speaker, to set the record straight. I do notice that, with respect to these students at Lake Tuggeranong College-Mr Pratt was there, and I think it is good that he was-Mr Cornwell wasn't there. Mr Cornwell obviously relies on that infallible source of information, WIN Television, or possibly that even more infallible source of information, that amount of absolutely brilliant bedtime reading that we know he gets engrossed in when he gets sand in his eyes, the Canberra Times. I'm sure that he goes to the cartoons and then works his way back to the important bits, skipping over the crosswords because that's really difficult in the middle of the day.
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