Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Funding NSW Flood Damage Repairs

Given the awful events up north in the last few days, one assumes that the NSW government will no longer pursue the commitment of $520 million of state funds to the Epping to Paramatta rail link! Suddenly there are much more urgent needs for that and more funding to be spent rebuilding our damaged state!
It seems a shame that the $550 million funding being provided to widen 21 km of the M2 cannot be reallocated somehow to the same purpose. With roads damaged and destroyed over a large part of northern NSW and Queensland, it seems such a waste to be widening a short stretch of motorway in a project that has been widely labelled unnecessary and unjustiable.

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