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

Mr GEE (Taylor) (14:53): Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question—

Mr Duluk interjecting:

Mr GEE: Yes, I know. It's a full moon, isn't it?

The SPEAKER: The member for Waite is warned.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Contain yourselves.

Mr GEE: My question is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Will the minister ensure that funds are provided to install a roundabout at the intersection of Curtis and Heaslip roads at Angle Vale in light of the long history of serious accidents?

The Hon. S.K. KNOLL (Schubert—Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Local Government, Minister for Planning) (14:54): I thank the member for his question. I have actually visited the site. I was out there with the Hon. John Dawkins, having a look at that issue. That project was put up for funding as part of the federal Black Spot program, but it was not successful in that regard. I note that that intersection still has some continuing difficulty. It is also an open question, certainly from council in relation to the ownership of various roads, including Curtis Road, out there in the north. It is fair to say that this is a difficult problem to deal with, in terms of the growth around Angle Vale and those surrounding suburbs either side of the Northern Expressway.

Really, it's a legacy situation that is going to take some time to clean up. There is that intersection, but there is a whole series of other intersections that I have been written to about in relation to residential growth in that area. The problem is that this land was rezoned, and there were a series of infrastructure deeds put over that land that provided trigger points at which those intersections and roads around there would be upgraded. That was done before I got here.

The difficulty is that we have a huge number of residential developments happening in the north and, with low population growth and a huge number of developments, we see each of these developments moving along slowly and incrementally. What that means is that those trigger points for where those infrastructure deeds kick in don't hit at the appropriate time. In fact, it takes quite a bit of time for those trigger points to be hit. The only way around that is for the state government to step up and provide that infrastructure, essentially in advance of when those infrastructure deed triggers would go off.

That's difficult because, again, we should be holding those deals as they were signed; they should progress forward. What it does show is an obvious flaw in the system. It is a flaw that exists out there in the north. It is a flaw that exists massively out at Mount Barker. On the 10-year anniversary of the rezoning of that area, we see a very flawed approach to dealing with the provision of infrastructure in greenfield developments.

We need to have a better way to deal with these things. We need to have a better way to provide orderly transition and growth of the urban fringe. It is something I am very keen to deal with, and it certainly is on the radar. To the member's point, if I had been able to make the decisions at the time at which they were made, we would not have made them in the same way that they have been made. But we will, as we have done in so many other areas of government, clean up the mess. It just takes a little bit of time to do it.

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