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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)
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Park-and-Ride Facilities

Mr BOYER (Wright) (15:02): My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Why has the electronic parking availability sign outside the Tea Tree Plaza park-and-ride been turned off? With your leave, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

The Hon. R. Sanderson: They're running out of questions.

The SPEAKER: The Minister for Child Protection is called to order.

Mr BOYER: Coinciding with the announcement in the recent state budget that the new Tea Tree Plaza park-and-ride would be delayed, the electronic parking availability sign ceased operating.

The SPEAKER: The ones at Paradise better be working, minister. You have the call.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The minister has the call.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (15:03): I'm not sure what sort of conspiracy theory is going on here, but I'm more than happy, member for Wright, to get to the bottom of it. What I would say, though, is that we are committed to delivering park-and-rides along the O-Bahn corridor. We have money in the budget to deliver what we believe are our first priorities—in fact, what the department believes are the first priorities—in relation to Paradise and in relation to Golden Grove.

The interesting thing about the Golden Grove park-and-ride is that it actually provides an opportunity for people to park in and around that Golden Grove area, which is very near to the member for Wright's electorate—people who would otherwise go and use the Tea Tree Plaza park-and-ride. So, in fact, by delivering the Golden Grove park-and-ride earlier, we actually have the opportunity to take some of the pressure off the parking situation as it exists at Westfield Tea Tree Plaza.

This isn't to say that we aren't going to deliver the Tea Tree Plaza park-and-ride or, indeed, the Klemzig park-and-ride. In fact, we are in discussions with the contractor who has been assigned to look at the planning works for these studies about how we can deliver this program of works over this term of government, not only then delivering on our election commitments but being able to go further than that.

What I can say to the house, to the member for Wright and to those members in the north-east, is that this is a government that is going to deliver park-and-rides along the O-Bahn corridor because we know that improving public transport in this way is going to help relieve congestion all along that corridor and in the city as well as provide better amenity for those residents who live in and around there. The people who live in the member for Wright's electorate should know that this is a government that is going to deliver on the promises it makes, and it has made provision for that in the 2018-19 budget.

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