The RACQ wants urgent intervention to avoid gridlock in south-east Queensland.Credit:Dan Peled
After federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King’s overnight suggestions in media that the plan had been worked through “with the co-operation of the states”,Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick was blunt.
“This is not true. Our government has not and will not co-operate to support Catherine King’s cuts. The minister should retract this statement and retract these cuts,” he wrote on social media.
He later added King should “treat Queensland more like Qantas and less like Qatar”.
Under thedetail published on Thursday,fresh scrutiny and planning will be applied to various Bruce Highway upgrades and more than 20 projects in planning will continue – with no final decision on construction costs. These include the proposed Centenary Motorway upgrade and Gympie Road study.
The SEQ City Deal will be the subject of further talks,while the commonwealth will contribute more funding to cover a projected blowout in costs for rail overpasses at Carseldine and Coopers Plains,and the Centenary Bridge upgrade.
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had declared she was“not happy” with what she had seen earlier in the week and called on her federal Labor government counterparts to “do what’s right” for the growing state.