Page 6048 - Week 14 - Thursday, 8 December 2011
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(14) Can the Minister provide a list of the current congestion levels of major roads in Canberra and the predicted congestion levels of these roads in the future for example in 2020 and 2030 or nearby years.
(15) What is the Government’s strategy to ensure that a parking offset fund can be introduced by 2013 and does the Territory Plan need to be amended to introduce the fund and when will consultation begin.
(16) Can the Minister provide data for the last five years on the proportion of freight travel to and from the ACT that was made by (a) road and (b) rail.
(17) What is the timeline for release of an ACT freight strategy.
Mr Corbell: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The final Transport for Canberra policy will be released in early 2012 to allow time to respond to the comments received during the consultation period in late 2011.
(2) The draft Weathering the Change Action Plan 2 has been released for public consultation (from 5 December 2011 to 2 March 2012). Draft Action Plan 2 is consulting the community on a range of different mitigation pathways (potential abatement measures within the residential, commercial, transport, waste and energy sectors) that could facilitate the emissions reductions required to meet the ACT legislated GHG reduction targets.
Emissions mitigation pathways will be determined following the consultation. Draft Action Plan 2 included modelling of the potential for emissions reductions from different actions in the transport sector.
(3) See the response at (2) above.
(4) ‘Fuel switching’ refers to vehicles that use lower or zero greenhouse gas emission fuel types including diesel, petrol or diesel hybrids, electric. Detail on the transport sector emission reduction potential is included in draft Action Plan 2 and supporting modelling.
(5) Detail on the transport sector emission reduction potential is included in draft Action Plan 2 and supporting modelling.
(6) The percentage of transport capital works and capital upgrades expenditure in the 2011-12 Budget and out-years were:
|
Roads |
86.5% |
|
Public Transport |
7.4% |
|
Cycling and Walking |
3.3% |
|
Road Safety |
2.8% |
(7) The dollars spent on transport capital works and capital upgrades in the 2011-12 budget and out-years were:
|
Roads |
$213,090,000 |
|
Public Transport |
$18,117,000 |
|
Cycling and Walking |
$8,250,000 |
|
Road Safety |
$6,865,000 |
|
Total: |
$246,322,000 |
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