Forget Fast & Furious – Palaszczuk is slow and spurious on roads

Forget Fast and Furious, the Palaszczuk Labor Government has been slow and spurious in dealing with two urgently needed road upgrade projects in the Whitsundays.

In April 2019, I secured $29.6 million to solve the Hamilton Plains flooding issue under the Federal Government’s Roads of Strategic Importance program.

Now I find out that the Palaszczuk Labor Government has picked the eyes out of that funding, for another project on Shute Harbour Road, and we have no word on what they’re doing, or when, to rectify the flooding issues at Hamilton Plains.

The plan to upgrade the flood-prone area of the Bruce Highway at Goorganga Plains has been going on since 2018 and is still a long way off completion.

We have had $12 million available for a $15m study to investigate viable solutions at Goorganga Plains since July 2018.

Just last week I learnt that the Queensland Labor Government won’t have a business case for Goorganga Plains until 2022.

When it comes to building roads, the Palaszczuk Labor Government are not fast and furious, but slow and spurious.