Page 4238 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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R10 services we need to make sure that they have a good run in. That is something that we will consider.
Our road network is supported by fantastic park and ride facilities across the territory, encouraging people to use public transport where they might have to run and drop the kids off to school and then potentially catch public transport. It is providing people with options and a different way to use public transport that was not available before. We will continue to invest in that as we design a park and ride strategy.
We are also helping to significantly reduce congestion by investing in active travel. More Canberrans are opting to walk and cycle to work, and the government is managing effectively 3,000 kilometres of community paths across the territory. We have built over 45 kilometres of shared paths in the past two years alone. I have also asked TCCS to make sure that we continue to do this, particularly, as we invest in new roads projects, where we can invest in building off-road path infrastructure alongside those roads, unless it is not suitable, such as with the Monaro Highway project.
We continue to invest in the upgrading and resealing of our existing 3,000 kilometres of roads across Canberra. I was recently very pleased, with Minister Gentleman, to launch resealing program for this year. I am looking forward to 1 million square metres of roads being resurfaced, which equates to 230 lane kilometres of roads across 21 ACT suburbs, to help meet our targets of five per cent of main roads and four per cent of municipal roads resealed. That is part of a preventative maintenance program. We are looking forward to making sure that this covers over the cracks and the imperfections in the roads and maintains their life for a longer period of time. Adopting a preventative maintenance approach assists in improving safety as well.
This is why it is so important to invest in roads. I back Ms Cody’s motion.
MS CHEYNE (Ginninderra) (3.39): I had not intended to speak, and I will not do it for long, but I need to draw attention to the opposition’s ongoing misrepresentation of issues, particularly when (1) they should know better—
Ms Lawder: On a point of order, Mr Assistant Speaker, misrepresentation requires a substantive motion. I ask Ms Cheyne to withdraw.
MS CHEYNE: I do not think that is right.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Let me seek some advice. Ms Cheyne—
MS CHEYNE: Look, let’s just get this over and done with. I do not want to waste time, Mr Assistant Speaker. I withdraw misrepresentation, notwithstanding that everybody else has said that word at some point today. I will say the opposition’s ongoing not listening, the opposition’s ongoing pretending not to hear things that are being said. The opposition, perhaps worse, are simply not doing the bare minimum of paying attention when things are said.
I want to draw particular attention to Miss C Burch’s comments about car-free days. We have discussed at length in the media and in this place what car-free actually
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