Susan Templeman (Macquarie, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm very pleased to let my community know that more than $5 million in Commonwealth funding is going towards helping to improve pedestrian and road safety across the Blue Mountains and the Hawkesbury. These are things like improved pedestrian crossings, fencing, street lighting, footpaths, pedestrian refuges, barriers and so much more. There are nine projects in the Hawkesbury and nearly that many in the Blue Mountains—and I'm just going to give you a couple of examples.

For instance, at Ellison Road in Springwood, there'll be the construction of a footpath. This is near one of our busiest schools. At the Great Western Highway in Hazelbrook, at the public school where a terrible accident has occurred, there will now be safety barriers on that Great Western Highway stretch.

There are also a couple of projects in Katoomba, Leura, Wentworth Falls and Blaxland, in the Hawkesbury. There are things like South Windsor, the construction of pram ramps and protected pedestrian access. There's work in George Street, Bligh Park, where goodness knows we need more pedestrian refuges—and people have spoken to me about those. These are great projects across the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains.