Queensland Budget 2022-23 - public transport

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https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/sunshine-coast/queensland-budget-sunshine-coast-major-road-and-rail-projects-get-140m-this-year/news-story/f0a2faf2e356cae6ba6160f98d85f2ac

... The budget included $3.5m this year for Beerwah to Maroochydore heavy rail planning.

Kawana MP Jarrod Bleijie slammed the government for not including any commitment towards building the CAMCOS rail, which would extend heavy rail to Maroochydore.

"This rail line from Beerwah to Caloundra to Kawana and Maroochydore would connect the Sunshine Coast to southeast Queensland in preparation for the Olympics," Mr Bleijie said.

Fairfax MP Ted O'Brien and Fisher MP Andrew Wallace said the budget included no "new rail projects"

"What we have ... (is) no funding, no commitment and no new ideas," Mr Wallace said.

Maroochydore MP Fiona Simpson said delays to the Maroochydore rail extension could risk the $1.6bn in federal funding.

The state government would spend $3.5m this year on the planning study and $1.25m next year.

The majority of the $1.6bn federal funding was budgeted to be spent after 2026.

Mr Bailey said the federal LNP "failed to deliver a single new rail sleeper" on the Sunshine Coast when it was in power for almost a decade.

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Mr Bailey said the federal LNP "failed to deliver a single new rail sleeper" on the Sunshine Coast when it was in power for almost a decade.

What is Mark Bailey talking about?

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Given that transport is a state government responsibility.. he's clutching at straws.
Always making excuses for his own governments failings.
Always blaming the Feds for his own inaction.

He's more than happy to accept the $390 million in Federal funding for Beerburrum to Beerwah.

The Minister is incompetent.
He should be sacked.

It's his own budgets and snail paced funding that have ensured no sleepers were laid.
To date they have spent only 46.7% of the moneys budgeted for B2N since 2018.

Labor stopped the $1.2 billion CAMCOS rail to Maroochydore in 2007.
Labor stopped the then $300m rail duplication to Landsborough in April 2009.
Labor kill #publictransport.

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Queensland -  Rail Revolution 2 Over Before It Started

23rd June 2022

The 2022-23 Queensland State Budget ( https://budget.qld.gov.au/ ) contained little new funding for its widely trumpeted Rail Revolution (number 2). The first Rail Revolution in 2011 ended up down a branch line. 

No money for rail to Maroochydore.
Beerburrum to Nambour on "Go Slow".
Cross River Rail train service network plan (sectorisation) still in hiding.
Heavy rail extension to Ripley Valley is just a line on a plan.
Rail to Beaudesert, Toowoomba or Fast Rail? There's a laugh.
Freight rail is just words in a strategy. North Coast line in the economic shadow of the Bruce Highway billions.

There isn't even funding to deliver the easy stuff like Cleveland and Shorncliffe line duplications or service frequency upgrades with existing staff and trains!!

Queensland Rail Revolution? What Queensland Rail Revolution?  Unless there is a true 'Rail Revolution' the Olympic Games in 2032 will be a transport failure and life in the sunshine state will continue to be transport poor.

Almost half of the Palaszczuk Government's touted 29.7 billion, four-year roads and transport investment plan is being spent widening roads, intersections or freeways. RAIL Back On Track has identified over $11B of SEQ freeway and road expansions that the transport and planning industry knows all to well will just create more congestion from the existing population where evidence of any economic benefit will be hard to find. When the OECD calls such investment a mistake it is time to recognise you've got it all wrong.

A true Rail Revolution would see a significant majority of this roads and transport investment plan being invested in active/public transport and regional/freight rail across Queensland, not well under 30% and mostly that in South East Queensland.

And we haven't even mentioned the state of the SEQ Bus Network or cycling.

There is a reason the % of trips by active and public transport is close to world's worst-practice in Queensland. It's because the Palaszczuk Government and those before it keep prioritising the widening of roads and building of freeways despite knowing it will make more people drive further and more often.

The world has moved on, yet the Queensland Government is still planning like it is the 1970's. Those counties and cities that have prioritised active and public transport are enjoying lower cost of living, healthier communities, easier access to jobs, greater tourism, safer neighbourhoods and more affordable housing.

The closest Queensland gets to a Rail Revolution is looking onto neighbour's NSW State Budget.

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org
RAIL Back On Track https://backontrack.org

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Rail Revolution - back on track?

19th June 2022

Greetings,

RAIL Back On Track welcomes the Rail Revolution that is coming.  Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk MP has declared " Queensland's rail revolution is on track with this year's budget delivering $3.5 billion worth of new rail projects, on top of our huge investment in Cross River Rail " ( https://www.facebook.com/annastaciamp/posts/601230851362518 ).

We had a Rail Revolution on the way in 2011 too.  Connecting SEQ 2031 ( https://cabinet.qld.gov.au/documents/2010/jul/connecting%20seq%202031/Attachments/Draft%20Connecting%20SEQ%202031.pdf ).  Unfortunately that ' Rail Revolution ' ended up going down a few branch lines.  We welcome back the ' Rail Revolution ' to the main line once again.

We look forward to the tabling of the 2022-23 Queensland Budget  and confirmation of funding directed towards the ' Rail Revolution '.

Best wishes,

Robert

Robert Dow
Administration
admin@backontrack.org
RAIL Back On Track https://backontrack.org

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Ted O'Brien MP:  THE FAIL REVOLUTION 

https://tedobrien.com.au/the-fail-revolution/

The Queensland State Government's 'rail revolution' has been exposed as a 'fail revolution' today with the revelation of a $1.835 billion underspend on the Sunshine Coast. 

Federal Member for Fairfax, Ted O'Brien slammed State Labor's commitments for 'new rail projects' as daylight robbery. 

"State Labor's so called 'rail revolution' is a political con-job that will rob Sunshine Coast residents of a pipeline of desperately needed infrastructure investments," Mr O'Brien said.

"The Sunshine Coast is focused on three rail projects in particular and Labor is short-changing us on every single one."

$1.6 billion on a 50:50 split towards a new $3.2 billion heavy passenger rail line between Beerwah and Maroochydore to be built ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The State committed $0.
The former Federal Government budgeted $390 million on a 50:50 split towards Stage 1 of the Beerburrum to Nambour rail upgrade. The State committed only $160 million.
The former Federal Government budgeted $5 million on a 50:50 split to redesign Stage 2 of the Beerburrum to Nambour rail upgrade to allow for full duplication to Nambour. The State committed only $1.25 million.
"Governments have earmarked nearly $2.163 billion to transform rail services on the Sunshine Coast, yet only 7 percent or $164.25 million comes from the Queensland Government and the remaining 93 percent or $1.998 billion comes from the former Federal Government.

"This is despite rail being the responsibility of the State Government," said Mr O'Brien. "It's an utter disgrace and a whopping slap in the face to every Sunshine Coast resident." 

"If the Queensland Government matched our budgeted commitments to Sunshine Coast rail, the total pipeline of investment would be nearly $4 billion," said Mr O'Brien.

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Couriermail --> David Crisafulli hits out at Palaszczuk government's new mental health levy $

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has gone on the attack over the Palaszczuk government's new mental health levy, warning it will hit the hip pocket of every Queenslander.

Delivering his budget reply speech on Thursday, Mr Crisafulli announced a future LNP government would stump up 50 per cent funding for a new passenger line between Beerwah and Maroochydore.

And the LNP leader also revealed that he would have a dedicated Minister for Women's Economic Security if wins the 2024 election.

Mr Crisafulli used the speech to hit out at the new mental health levy, questioning why the government was hitting the state with a new tax in the middle of a "full-blown cost of living crisis". ...

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Queensland Parliament

https://documents.parliament.qld.gov.au/tableOffice/questionsAnswers/2022/1245-2022.pdf

Question on Notice
No. 1245
Asked on 28 October 2022

MR M BOOTHMAN ASKED MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT AND MAIN ROAD (HON M BAILEY)

QUESTION:

Will the Minister provide a breakdown of all projects included in the QTRIP item 'Other Rail
Growth', including the spend for each project (reported separately by financial year)?

ANSWER:

I thank the Member for Theodore for the question and provide the following breakdown of rail
growth projects as requested.

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2022-23 Budget Update

The 2022–23 Budget Update provides an update on Queensland's economic and fiscal position since the 2022–23 Budget, highlighting the Queensland Government's commitment to build future prosperity and growth across the state by focusing on good jobs, better services and great lifestyle.

7th December 2022

https://budget.qld.gov.au/budget-update/