Gary Hardgrave (Moreton, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Speaking about roads being built, the best road in my electorate is the southern Brisbane bypass, which is the Logan Motorway and Gateway Arterial Road. It is a tollroad. It is the only tollroad in the entire state of Queensland, and last week the poor economic management of the Queensland government delivered a 10c per tollbooth rise in the overall toll costs for motorists in my area. That is millions of dollars worth of regional tax on residents through Sunnybank Hills, Sunnybank, Runcorn and Eight Mile Plains. Local roads are choking as trucks go round it. If it had not been for the Howard government putting $1.7 million to pay the toll on trucks at night, there would have been 221,000 extra trucks on the roads between 10 pm and 5 am over the last couple of years.

David Hawker (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! It being 2 pm, in accordance with standing order 43 the time for members’ statements has concluded.