Page 1930 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 6 June 2017
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Our 10-Year Health Plan will ensure that local health care delivery not only keeps up as our city grows, but keeps getting even better.
Building a better city
Madam Speaker, if you commute to work from the south into the city, if you take Gundaroo Drive, or if you are part of the Molonglo Valley’s growing community, you already know that there is a need for new and better transport infrastructure.
We are not waiting for Sydney-style traffic jams to bank up; we are starting work today to build the transport infrastructure, the rail and the roads, that will keep Canberra moving.
The construction of Canberra’s light rail network is the most significant infrastructure and transport project this city has ever embarked upon. With construction of Stage 1 from Gungahlin to the city now well on track for completion in late 2018 we are moving ahead with Stage 2 to Woden, just as we promised we would.
This Budget delivers the funding needed to carry out the detailed scoping and route planning for the city to Woden corridor. Almost 210,000 Canberrans will work, live or study within one kilometre of this corridor by 2041. Planning for this growth now is critical to reduce congestion and to give southside commuters a quick, practical and low polluting alternative to driving their cars.
Light rail is at the heart of the Government’s plans to build a better city, but these plans include much more.
Our roads package upgrades, builds and plans for eight important roads, including Stage 2 of the Gundaroo Drive duplication, the Canberra Brickworks access road, the Molonglo East-West arterial roads, and the Federal Highway and Old Well Station Road intersection upgrades.
The creation of the City Renewal Authority gives our community the opportunity to reshape the city CBD and the lake precinct for the better. This includes the completion of Stage 2 of the West Basin Boardwalk and more infrastructure to make this land a better place for Canberrans, the activation of Haig Park, and more links between our CBD business precincts.
And the upgrades that we committed to for local centres—the Tuggeranong town centre, Kambah village and Gungahlin—make sure that better community and shopping facilities are available close to home wherever you are across our city.
Better services in your community
Canberrans are proud of how our city looks and feels. We have a distinctive natural environment and we have long invested more in public spaces and places than many other cities do.
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