Road Upgrades

Mr DULUK (Waite) (14:13): My question is to the—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Settle down.

An honourable member interjecting:

Mr DULUK: I hope so.

The SPEAKER: The member for Waite.

Mr DULUK: My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Can the minister inform the house on the Marshall and Morrison governments' plan to bust congestion and fix nine intersections across metropolitan Adelaide?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call.

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:13): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I very much appreciate the opportunity from the member for Waite to answer this question and note his continual advocacy—some might say pest-like behaviour—in looking after his electorate and his desire to see congestion busting through the Mitcham Hills and down into the Adelaide metropolitan area.

We have been unveiling more and more of our plans over the past months since the federal budget, having worked with the federal Liberal Morrison government to deliver much-needed congestion-busting infrastructure here in Adelaide. It is a comprehensive plan that is going to see us unlock and get people out of their cars, not sitting at traffic lights and tearing their hair out but actually getting them to work and home from work, picking up the kids, and getting them to sit down at night. This is what happens when you have a grown-up relationship with the government of the day, and it is delivering for South Australians. It is delivering for South Australians over the course of the next four years.

We have the Torrens Road, Ovingham, level crossing upgrade, one that you, Mr Speaker, will note the member for West Torrens didn't want to support because he was trying to make a cheap political point. We have the Brighton Road, Hove, level crossing, something that I know the member for Gibson, the member for Black and the member for Morphett have been advocating for for a long time. This is a much-needed upgrade to a stretch of road that has become worse in terms of the traffic congestion that's on that road.

We have also the Fullarton Road-Cross Road intersection upgrade at the bottom of the Mitcham Hills corridor. Those frustrated motorists, who have been winding their way down Old Belair Road, will now have a quicker ride once they get to the bottom of that stretch and be able to get through into the city much faster than they do now. We have the $100 million upgrade to the Portrush Road-Magill Road intersection—Portrush Road being the most congested road in Adelaide and that intersection being one of the worst.

Finally, we are able to sit down, with fifty-fifty funding with the federal government, to put $100 million on the table to upgrade this very important stretch of road. We also have the Springbank Road/Goodwood Road/Daws Road intersection—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —one that has received a lot of attention. It has taken 30 years to try to get something done—not much happening—and money delivered in the budget to deliver this intersection by 2022. That is a record that we are very proud to stand up and spruik all day long. We also have the $35 million upgrade—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: —of the Glen Osmond Road-Fullarton Road intersection.

The Hon. D.G. Pisoni: Hear, hear!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL: I thank the member for Unley for his advocacy, noting that this is the intersection in his patch of the world that receives more complaints than any other. The crash statistics for that intersection are abhorrent, and we are going to fix it. We are going to provide that upgrade at a very key intersection of our network.

We also have the upgrades to the Main North Road-Nottage Terrace section of Main North Road at Scotty's Corner, a very congested part of our road network. We also have an upgrade to Main North Road/McIntyre Road/Kings Road—again, further out north. Main North Road is a road that has been neglected for a long period of time by those opposite. We are putting money on the table to fix it.

We also have the Grand Junction Road-Hampstead Road intersection upgrade, a very key part of the existing freight network and a key freight productivity improvement that we are putting on the table to make it much safer for trucks to move around our city. This is what happens when you have a Marshall Liberal government and a Morrison Liberal government in charge, at federal and state levels, here across our state, and it is delivering in spades for the people of South Australia.