Page 3754 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 24 August 2011
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MR CORBELL: Again, because Mr Smyth does not understand it, we are building that busway. The first stage of it is now well underway between Marcus Clarke Street and Barry Drive.
MR SPEAKER: Dr Bourke, a supplementary?
DR BOURKE: Minister, park and ride stations are a highly successful component of the ACT’s public transport network, and I ask the minister whether he would give some details about the expansion of park and ride facilities.
MR CORBELL: Again I thank Dr Bourke for the question. Park and ride is identified as one of the key initiatives in the sustainable transport plan. It is also identified as action 4, the development of a park and ride strategy, under the ACT’s climate change strategy.
Park and ride aims to reduce the length of travel by private motor vehicles, increase the use of public transport and reduce parking demand in the major commercial and retail centres in the city, town centres and the parliamentary triangle. I hope that Mr Coe is paying attention to the fact that investment in park and ride helps with managing parking demand. Currently there are park and ride facilities at Belconnen, Woden, Tuggeranong, Jamison, Charnwood, Kippax, Mawson, Curtin, Kambah, Chisholm and Calwell.
Under the transport for Canberra program, $4 million has been allocated over four years to expand this network of park and ride facilities, with a focus on facilities on the existing rapid corridors. Just under $1 million was allocated in 2010-11 for design and construction of new facilities at Flemington Road near EPIC, Purdue Street, Belconnen and the expansion of the very successful Mawson park and ride facility.
The construction program for this financial year will include new facilities near College Street at the University of Canberra, near Cotter Road, for the new Molonglo Valley suburbs and an expansion of options for park and ride at Kippax, to support the government’s extension of the Blue Rapid service, as well as an expansion of commuter park and ride at the Calwell shops. A park and ride facility at Erindale will be effective after the establishment of the bus station facility at Erindale.
As you can see, significant investment is occurring in improving park and ride facilities for the community. The government has factored in further investment in these facilities of $3.2 million—(Time expired.)
MR SPEAKER: Mr Coe, a supplementary?
MR COE: Minister, what changes to the back end of the MyWay system will be implemented later this year to enable information about travel distances to come on line?
MR CORBELL: I am unclear as to specifically what elements Mr Coe is referring to, but what I would say is that the government is investing significantly in better data
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