Page 221 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 15 February 2012

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GDE onto Belconnen Way and you will be backed up coming off the GDE onto Parkes Way and onto the Tuggeranong Parkway as well. The only way to deal with all of that is to extend the lanes on all of those roads. And it amounts to what? The experts in transport across the world tell us that if you build a road, it will fill and that this is not going to be the smart, clever way to address the transport needs of this city in this century. That is why we need to be considered, we need to look at the evidence and we need a much better plan than Mr Coe’s.

Question put:

That Ms Gallagher’s amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11		Noes 6
Mr Barr	Mr Hargreaves	Mr Coe	Mr Smyth
Dr Bourke	Ms Hunter	Mr Doszpot
Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur	Mrs Dunne
Ms Burch	Ms Porter	Mr Hanson
Mr Corbell	Mr Rattenbury	Mr Seselja
Ms Gallagher

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

MR COE (Ginninderra) (4.44): “T2 and T3 lanes, along with park and rides, are forms of infrastructure and are a part of improving transport and encouraging changes to the way people travel to and from work every day … I would like to request that the government improve enforcement of the T2 lane and suggest that T2 signs include specific warnings about the penalties for using the lane incorrectly. I would also expect that this lane-cutting concern could arise on any transit lane, and I do not know if it is a reason to never have transit lanes or, particularly, shared lanes in Canberra.”

They were the words of Amanda Bresnan last year, on 16 November. It is interesting that she should say that then, yet today Barry Drive is very different, according to the words of Ms Hunter. It is very different, because the difference is that the member for Brindabella, who does not live in Brindabella, though she lives vaguely in that direction, would use Adelaide Avenue perhaps on a daily basis, whereas the member for Ginninderra, again a bit of synergy here, does not live in the electorate and never, ever gets stuck on Barry Drive in the morning. I do not know how it would be possible that she could be stuck on Barry Drive in the morning, unless she took a pretty big deviation from the inner north.

Members interjecting—

MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Excuse me, Mr Coe, for just a minute. Stop the clock, please. Would members of the Greens decide to have their conversation outside or lower the volume, please. Thank you. Mr Coe, the floor is yours.

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