Page 5959 - Week 14 - Thursday, 8 December 2011
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MR COE: Minister, why did the redesign of the Glenloch interchange not address the potential choke point referred to earlier, when simply everybody could tell that such a choke point would exist?
MS GALLAGHER: So could you tell, Mr Coe? You predicted that? Everyone, apparently, could have predicted it.
Mrs Dunne: I predicted it too.
MS GALLAGHER: Oh, did you? Big ticks all around then.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, members. Chief Minister, through the chair, please.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. As I said, I will go out and have a look at that area. I will look at the choke point. The advice—
Mr Seselja: You’ve already got a secret strategy. You don’t need—
MS GALLAGHER: I did not say it was a secret strategy. Those are your words, Mr Seselja. You are the big conspiracy theorists over there. I did not say it was a secret strategy at all. I think anyone who wants to go and have a look at the TAMS website and all the information that is provided there around roads and different projects that are underway will actually see that there is nothing secret; in fact there is more information than probably has ever been provided before around this subject. But I am very happy to go and have a look, see what the members for Ginninderra have raised in this place with us today and take further advice on it.
MR HARGREAVES: A supplementary.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: Minister, does the exit from Glenloch Interchange into Parkes Way and the possible turning of that into three lanes mean that it will be an incursion into the national parkland of Black Mountain, and what sort of consideration should be given before that parkland should be destroyed?
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Hargreaves. The point Mr Hargreaves raises is a good one in the sense that roadworks and how they are managed right across the city need to take into account competing and varied interests, including environmental—
Mr Smyth: On time, on budget.
MS GALLAGHER: It is not all about just building extra roads, as the Liberal Party would have; it is about an integrated transport response. It is around maintaining our nature reserves. It is around consulting with the community around the decisions that are taken. As our community grows, these discussions will be had year in, year out.
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