Page 4118 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 22 October 2019
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More Canberrans are opting to cycle and walk to work. At present, the ACT government manages over 3,000 kilometres of community paths across the territory. We are continuing to expand and upgrade this network in order to encourage more people to use active travel. There is $30 million of upgrades occurring in our town centres.
We are also continuing our very strong record of building and upgrading roads across the territory to keep Canberrans moving. In this budget, this year alone we are beginning work to duplicate Athllon Drive between Sulwood Drive and Drakeford Drive down in Tuggeranong and also closer to Woden near Melrose Drive and Shea Street in Phillip. We are upgrading William Hovell Drive and William Slim Drive. We have also completed the works on Horse Park Drive which I announced with Mr Pettersson a few months ago. We have seen the first stage of Gundaroo Drive’s upgrade completed, and stage 2 is well underway.
Our biggest investment in roads is a jointly funded project with the commonwealth government, something that I was pleased to announce with Mr Gentleman just a few months ago, to improve safety and also traffic flow on this key arterial road in the south, particularly for Tuggeranong residents. We will continue to invest. (Time expired.)
MS CHEYNE: Minister, what upgrades is the government undertaking in my electorate of Ginninderra?
MR STEEL: I thank Ms Cheyne for her supplementary question. There is a lot to talk about when it comes to Belconnen and the upgrades that we are making there in infrastructure, particularly in roads and active travel projects.
I was very pleased to join Ms Cheyne and Minister Ramsay earlier this month to oversee the start of construction of the Belconnen bikeway. The Belconnen bikeway will be a 4.7 kilometre stretch of shared paths and bike paths helping to improve connections throughout Belconnen town centre. This will establish a new east-west connection from Coulter Drive in Florey through to the Belconnen town centre, past Emu Bank to the University of Canberra, connecting with Belconnen town centre, and will be an important part of the regeneration of the Belconnen town centre in the future.
Another key project is of course the design that is now underway on William Hovell Drive, an important connection to the west Belconnen area. It will provide better connections for people in our established Belconnen suburbs. It serves 20,000 vehicles per day, and of course we have growing suburbs emerging around Ginninderry as well that this road will cater for in the future. As part of that upgrade we are also very pleased to include both on-road and off-road cyclepaths to better connect Canberrans.
MR PETTERSSON: Minister, how will the government’s road network policy benefit all Canberrans?
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