South Road Upgrades

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:47): My question is to the Minister for Transport as a supplementary. Has the minister informed the member for Croydon that his constituents when driving will not be able to turn right from South Road onto Port Road under the revised Torrens to Torrens project?

Members interjecting:

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister Assisting the Minister for Planning, Minister Assisting the Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:47): It is a very good question. As the deputy leader has alluded to, there has been a significant change to traffic management at the intersection of the two surface roads that will remain along South Road and Port Road. Currently, people who drive up South Road have had to bank in the middle of the intersection, two or three cars only involved at that point of banking in the middle of the intersection turning right onto Port Road.

A revised traffic treatment, which is part of the project assessment report, which was released today, will enable traffic to instead, if they were turning right from South Road onto Port Road, turn left, enter into part of the median strip which will allow a U-turn and drive down Port Road instead. This provides far greater capacity for people to access the intersection and make those traffic movements. Time savings, I am advised by the department, on the completion of the project will be 20 seconds per intersection movement, and 2031 traffic modelling shows that the time savings then will be in the order of 100 seconds or a minute and 40 seconds.

The SPEAKER: I am pleased to tell the deputy leader I was informed some weeks ago and I will be doing a direct mail into Croydon, West Croydon and West Hindmarsh as soon as I can escape this place.