Julian Simmonds (Ryan, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] I made an important commitment to the people of Ryan at the last election to fix local roads, and, with the help of the Brisbane City Council and Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, we are getting on with the job. This week has been all about roads in the Ryan electorate.

I've been out this morning with Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner to the Gresham Street bridge in Ashgrove, where we are lowering a temporary bridge into place so that we can replace an older-style 90-year-old wooden bridge. This is going to help residents for whom this bridge is their only way in and out. It's part of a jointly funded—federally funded with Brisbane City Council support—project to upgrade this bridge, improve flood immunity, upgrade the vehicle load limit and improve this intersection's safety for all residents in Ashgrove and The Gap.

We've got the Indooroopilly roundabout project as well—again, a project funded fifty-fifty between the Morrison federal government and the Brisbane City Council—which is already well underway. Thanks to the support of the Brisbane City Council, we've now enlarged the project to include a full corridor improvement for Moggill Road, one of the most congested road corridors in Brisbane. We've already seen demolition works underway at the current Indooroopilly roundabout site so that work on the new intersection can begin. The expanded project scope is going to include not only the intersection upgrade but new indented bus stops, bus priority measures, safety measures and selected road widening along the Moggill Road corridor. It's all about how our two LNP governments are working together to fix local roads. (Time expired)

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