Page 2893 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 29 June 2011
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We now have the capability in our buses, thanks to the government’s investment in a new ticketing system, the MyWay system, where we are able to have GPS information on where buses are in real time.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Order, members, if you want to have a discussion, please keep it down.
MR CORBELL: I am very pleased to say that over the next 12 months we will deliver on that real-time system so that at major bus stops, there will be real-time information to tell people where the buses are, how far away they are in terms of time so that people can have certainty about the buses. We will also be rolling out initiatives in relation to mobile phone applications so that people can get bus information through an app on their mobile phone. So these are very important initiatives to improve accessibility to bus information and create an environment where people have greater confidence about knowing where the bus is, when it is going to show up and how far away it is.
Secondly, there are also some very important levels of investment in improving new municipal infrastructure as a whole. The government has made an allocation of $144 million for the construction of the Majura parkway, a very important project and a project that the government continues to work closely with the commonwealth on to see that their commitment to the remaining 50 per cent cost of that project is forthcoming. There is $1.5 million to improve a range of intersections in west Belconnen where we know there are a range of issues.
There is more money for addressing resource recovery, $11.2 million to address some problems with stockpiled building waste as well as constructing new facilities where new resource recovery businesses can establish and create new economic activity in terms of new resource recovery. So these are all very important projects.
I am sure that my colleague Dr Bourke will be interested to note there is also some very important money being provided to revitalise the Eastern Valley Way inlet on Lake Ginninderra. This is a project that my predecessor, Mr Stanhope, championed and I am pleased that we are moving to complete this very important roadwork and address the amenity as well as the usability problems that are associated with that piece of infrastructure. So there are some very important projects in relation to municipal infrastructure and public transport.
More money is being provided to assist the regeneration of box gum woodlands, $1 million over four years to assist with these projects. There is $1.8 million for pest plant management in our nature parks and reserves. There is half a million dollars for approved rabbit control and $300,000 for conservation measures for threatened species and communities.
There is a very important additional level of funding to the RSPCA, an additional $150,000 per annum to the RSPCA, bringing the total contribution to over half a
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