Questions Without Notice - ACT Legislative Assembly - 20090402

This is footage of a question without notice in the ACT Legislative Assembly on Thursday 02 April, 2009.

The "question without notice" was from Ms. Amanda Bresnan MLA (ACT Greens) to Mr. Jon Stanhope MLA (ALP) the ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Transport.

The primary question is in relation to the delays and status of the release of the study undertaken by Price Waterhouse Coopers for the development of a submission and business case for ACT light rail to be submitted to Infrastructure Australia.

The supplementary question was in regard to forward planning and design of the new Belconnen Bus interchange and it's suitability to allow integration of light rail at a later date.

ACT Light Rail is concerned that the Chief Minister failed to give straight answers in both cases.

The PWC study cost ACT ratepayers $172,304 and there is no valid reason why the document should not be released in to the public domain. We wonder if there is something in the report that the ACT Government would find embarrising - ACT Light Rail has always maintained that a figure of $3.5 billion for a light rail network seems highly inflated.

Secondly fact that the ACT Government bureaucracy has failed to take Light Rail integration in to consideration with regard to long term planning and design for the new Belconnen Bus Interchange is simply inexcusable. The ALP Government has made it abundantly clear repeatedly that Light Rail is an ACT Government transport infrastructure policy priority.

Note: copyright of the material in this clip resides with the Australian Capital Territory. Usage permitted in accordance with the Australian Copyright Act 1968, Section 42: Fair dealing for purpose of reporting news. Source: ACT Legislative Assembly, http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/

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