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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Regional Rail

The Hon. R.A. SIMMS (15:12): Supplementary: it was a good try, but does the minister have a plan for rail to the Adelaide Hills?

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Minister for Autism) (15:12): I don't know if the member was listening, but as much as I have the absolute most respect for the honourable member, the line that he has referred to, I believe, in his policy ideas is the ARTC line to Mount Barker. That line was built in 1883. It is a little bit outdated. I just want to run through this a bit more. When the Mount Barker Mass Transit Study was released, it suggested that the maximum speed that could be used on this particular line could be 25 to 40 km/h. That is rather slow. That is a slow journey into the city.

What is seen as a good investment, and what is seen as an efficient form of getting down from the Hills—weaving around, instead of going 20 to 40 km/h—is investments in buses. That is what we have seen. I just went through that before. There is $19 million to go into new park-and-rides and to go into almost 600 new services. I have run through the rail component just for you just then, and the investment that we put in is buses, significant investment in buses. It is making a difference. We have seen an increase, we are seeing the popularity grow, and that has been the investment.

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