South Road Tram Overpass

Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:57): Supplementary: can the minister advise if the final design for the bikeway was signed off by the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:57): I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

Mr PISONI: Can you advise whether the final design was signed off by your department?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN: My understanding is that the department has been involved in discussions with Aurecon, which is the independent firm we briefed to do a number of pieces of work on the South Road tram overpass. The first piece, of course, was an examination of what went wrong, and we have released that report. The second report that has been commissioned is to design a fix and then work out what needs to be done to implement that fix. As for the status of that, I would be confident to say that the department has been involved in those discussions the whole way through.

Whether it has been signed off or not, I'm not sure that's the case, but I will check. It certainly hasn't been presented to me by the department so that I am in a position to go out and let people know what the solution is and what will be involved in installing it because, of course, we are concerned with what I think the member for Unley was alluding to, and that is not just getting the bikeway back open but making sure the entirety of the bridge is safe, and also what is going to be the impact on traffic on South Road when we go about installing whatever the fix is.