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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Road Gazettal

Mr ELLIS (Narungga) (14:15): My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the government consider gazetting recently completed sections of the Upper Yorke Road for 30-metre A-double road trains? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr ELLIS: YP Council has recently announced it will gazette local government roads for 30-metre road trains. Farmers and truckies around the region would like the government to do the same for the state government roads.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Energy and Mining) (14:15): This is something the member for Narungga has been onto me about for a while now. He is pretty keen to see this gazettal on government roads. I am giving it active consideration. I have asked the department to go away and do a body of work.

Obviously, if you give a mouse a cookie it is going to want a glass of milk, so if we go one distance you are going to want to go further—my instincts are you are going to want to go all the way to Maitland. We will have a look at the entire network and see if it is capable.

I applaud the YP Council allowing that level of access on all its roads. I think that is a very good move. What I have asked the department to do is not just the section that you have talked about but the entire section all the way to Maitland. If it is possible I would be very keen to do it, because I think it is a good idea. It is a good initiative by the member.

The member understands the needs of farming communities in Yorke Peninsula. He understands that they need to move freight, and the larger the vehicles the more efficient it is to move that freight and the less traffic we have on our roads. It is a good suggestion. Thank you for bringing it up. I will do my homework and get back to the member as soon as possible.

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