Page 609 - Week 02 - Thursday, 20 February 2020
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We looked at the data, and it showed that the dogleg around Barton, Kings Avenue and Constitution Avenue takes an extra 15 minutes on the route. The changes that we will be making will save Tuggeranong residents around 15 minutes in travel time to get to the city. In doing so we will be adding an additional route in the term 2 update which will be running very frequently, almost akin to a rapid service, from Woden through Barton, Kings Avenue and Constitution Avenue, which will provide access for workers in the employment hubs around Barton and still maintain access for them going forward.
MS LE COUTEUR: Minister, the changes will remove the R6 from City West to make way for light rail construction. Can you explain why this change is happening so far ahead of the construction actually starting and how City West will be serviced in the interim?
MR STEEL: I thank Ms Le Couteur for her supplementary. The reason we are making this change is that the network update that we are making envisages that we will be starting construction as early as this year on light rail stage 2A. The changes that we are making need to take that into account, with construction likely to begin particularly with preliminary works in the London Circuit area, particularly with the other parallel project of raising London Circuit. It makes sense, then, to route them around the eastern side of London Circuit in anticipation of that work commencing and the disruption that that might cause buses if they were to remain on that section of London Circuit. People will still be able to access the other side of London Circuit on the route 53 as well as walking the distance from Marcus Clarke Street.
Land—sales
MR PARTON: My question is to the Minister for Housing and Suburban Development. Minister, in answer to a question yesterday about the fall in land sales in the ACT you said:
It is a whole bunch of complex issues that have come together and caused land sales to go down.
You then went on to blame the fall on external factors such as the banking royal commission and the 2019 federal election. However, you did not explain how the fall in land sales was influenced by the government’s squeeze on land supply and the resultant high prices for land. Minister, to what extent has the government’s squeeze on land supply and the resultant high prices for land contributed to the fall in land sales?
MS BERRY: The reason why that was not included in my response yesterday was that I do not agree with the presumption that Mr Parton has made and the allegations that he has made against the government. I can respond that the number of actual detached single-residential blocks available for sale currently in the ACT is 483.
In response to Mr Coe’s question earlier, there are currently 60 blocks available in Throsby as well as 360 blocks in Taylor, 42 in north Wright and 21 in north Coombs. Four hundred and eighty-three detached single-residential blocks available for sale
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