Page 4629 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 27 November 2019
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Also on the south side, for Mrs Jones’s interest, is the upcoming open day of the Active Leisure Centre at Erindale College, which is on 1 December. The facility offers a wide range of activities, including a cardio gym, a weights gym, squash courts and a sports hall, as well as a 25-metre swimming pool. The centre recently re-opened after $1.4 million in repairs to the pool. As I said, the open day is on Sunday, 1 December, with free entry as well as a range of health and aquatic activities for all.
ACT Health—SPIRE project
MISS C BURCH: My question is to the Minister for Transport and Minister for City Services. Minister, what impact will the bottlenecks on Palmer Street and Gilmore Crescent have on travel to and from the Canberra Hospital after the SPIRE building becomes operational?
MR STEEL: I thank the member for her question. I am happy to take on notice some of the detail, but we are, of course, in the early stages, as the Minister for Health has mentioned, of design of the SPIRE centre. As part of that work, we will be undertaking traffic modelling to assess the impacts. That will have to take into account the final design of the project, which is yet to be established. Of course, we will be looking at all the traffic impacts. That includes private passenger vehicles, but it also includes our public transport system. We have quite a few buses running past the hospital, including the rapid 6. We want the hospital to remain accessible for people using our public transport system.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, what measures will be put in place to ensure the safety of traffic and pedestrians travelling to and from the Canberra Hospital in the area around SPIRE?
MR STEEL: I thank the member for her question but, as I have just outlined—I am not sure whether she listened to the answer to the first question—we are still going through the work of doing the traffic modelling. Of course in the future we will look at what measures are necessary to make sure that traffic is flowing appropriately through this very tight precinct.
MR HANSON: Minister, what traffic studies have been done concerning school pick-up and drop-off times once SPIRE is fully operational?
MR STEEL: We are still working through those traffic studies at the moment as part of the early stages of the project. We will continue to assess the traffic as the early design continues. I am not sure that I can provide any more information than that today.
Hospitals—maternity services
MS LAWDER: My question is to the Minister for Health. I refer to a report in the media of 21 October regarding the experience of a woman who presented to the Canberra Hospital in May 2019 after her baby died in the womb. She was advised that the plan was to give her drugs and send her home to give birth to a stillborn baby. The
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