Media Release.
The Newman Government’s plan to slug motorists with a new toll on the
Gateway Motorway is an ill-conceived insult to Queenslanders which exposes the
LNP’s incompetence.
Acting Opposition Leader Tim Mulherin said while the government was
planning to introduce the additional toll, it had slashed Main Roads funding and
failed to announce a single new roads project, at the same time engaging in
Canberra-bashing to justify its own shortcomings.
“This is a government that has not funded a single new Main Roads project,
in fact it has slashed Queensland’s Transport and Main Roads rolling capital
works budget by $1.6 billion,” Mr Mulherin said.
“This is a government that has not funded or committed to a single new
infrastructure project to benefit Queenslanders.
“In fact the only infrastructure project it has funded is to benefit itself
and that is a shiny new Executive Building in the city for the Premier and his
Ministers.
“This is a government that now plans to slug motorists when they promised
to lower the cost of living.
“The simple truth is this: The planned Gateway upgrade is going through the
correct processes for consideration by the Federal Government’s Infrastructure
Australia
“To impose a new toll while that process is in train is simply jumping the
gun.”
Mr Mulherin said the Transport Minister’s attack on motorists was a
diversionary tactic because the LNP knows it can’t trust Warren Truss to deliver
in an Abbott Government, just as he failed to deliver on the Bruce Highway under
the Howard Government when he was Transport Minister.
“The former Labor Government funded the Gateway duplication.
“No funding was received for this project from the former Howard
Government.
“So now this LNP Government engages in a campaign to penalise motorists and
that is just a taste of what is to come in 2013.
“It’s a government with a dearth of ideas outside of sacking public sector
workers and slashing frontline services.
“At every opportunity, it will fall back on Canberra-bashing to divert
attention from its own incompetence.”
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