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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Road Upgrades

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham) (14:55): My question is to the Minister for Transport. Why, sir, have you scrapped the $6 million upgrade to the Cheltenham Parade-Port Road intersection?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:55): I defer to the member for Cheltenham with his question to say that we haven't. This was actually something that was reported. It was the member for Lee who had a bit of a dig in the paper. I also noticed that the member for Lee had a bit of a dig on Twitter about the Henley Beach jetty in relation to the curved roof, which the member for Colton has been advocating very strongly on. It was actually him who made the decision, and now he is blaming me for the decision that he made.

In relation to this intersection, it's not that it has been scrapped: it's that it just got a whole lot more expensive. I think the former government may have known that. The project is still there; it is still sitting on the table. We are still keen to try to deliver it. It's just that the bucket of money—which, off the top of my head, is between $5 million and $6 million—doesn't touch the sides of what we are actually going to need to be able to deliver the project. Once again, there is a bit of mess that we are cleaning up. It is going to take us a little bit longer than the time we have had to be able to clean up the mess, but that project is still on the table. We are just working our way through what is the best way to deliver on that.

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