Park-and-Ride Facilities

Ms BEDFORD (Florey) (15:08): My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Who made the decision to take the $15 million budgeted in the 2017-18 document for the Tea Tree Plaza and Klemzig park-and-rides and use it instead for park-and-rides at Golden Grove and Paradise in the 2018-19 first Liberal budget? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Ms BEDFORD: The member for Newland reaffirmed in the North Eastern Weekly on 17 April 2019 that the government was delivering its promise on the Tea Tree Plaza Interchange; he just didn't say when that might happen.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (15:09): I remember this very clearly because it was an issue which was canvassed very publicly in the lead-up to the last state election. The member for Florey quite rightly points out that the previous government had allocated $15 million for two projects. These weren't the projects that we had promised in the lead-up to that last election. In fact, we were very clear with the people of South Australia the project that we favoured, where we thought there was the highest need, which was the Paradise park-and-ride.

In addition to that, though, since coming to government we have made sure that we have been able to put other projects on the table; of course, the first was Golden Grove. I was very pleased to be out with the member for King, who had very strongly lobbied on behalf of her constituents who love getting onto the O-Bahn. Then, more recently, we made an announcement with regard to people in the Modbury area, who already had 700 car parks available to them, to increase that by a further 400 car parks, up to 1,100.

We love the O-Bahn in South Australia. It was actually a Liberal piece of infrastructure. It must be coming up to around the 40^th anniversary at the moment because it was put in place by the Tonkin government, Dr David Tonkin, who was the member for Bragg, the very first member for Bragg. It is one of the most incredibly well used pieces of public—

Ms Bedford interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Florey!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —transport infrastructure in the entire country, so it's something that all South Australians can be very proud of. In fact, I was on it this morning with the member for Newland. I caught the 540 service at 7.53. I was in the city in Currie Street or Grenfell Street about, I think, 17 or 18 minutes later. It was absolutely fantastic. I had a great opportunity—

Mr Malinauskas interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Leader!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —to speak to people. One of the things that they are very keen on is making sure that we continue to have very good public transport services in South Australia, and that's why we are constantly investing in public transport in South Australia. It's been a major focus for us since we came to government. I hope that clarifies for the member the commitments that the Australian Labor Party made and the Liberal Party made in the lead-up to the last election. Of course, we also very significantly said that we would be investing in the Modbury hotel, which I know—

Members interjecting:

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —Hospital, sorry, which I know—

Ms Bedford interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Florey is called to order.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —she has long advocated for. Over 16 years of the previous government, of course, they weren't able to effect those changes. They presided over massive cuts to the Modbury Hospital, to the Noarlunga Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and, as we know, it's a matter of the public record now that they actually closed the Repat hospital. That was done under the Leader of the Opposition's reign, five-month reign, as he pointed out on the radio today, when he was the health minister in South Australia.

We make commitments in the lead-up to elections. We delivered on ours with regard to Paradise and then, of course, subsequent to that, over and above what we committed, Golden Grove and Modbury.