With an election looming, the state government says it will investigate a potentially tolled tunnel linking Darra and Toowong.
Queensland’s state Labor government will investigate a second potential tolled tunnel between Darra and Toowong to deliver a long-touted “western bypass” of Brisbane’s inner-city.
The state and federal governments have already started work on a $300 million duplication of the Centenary Motorway’s Brisbane River crossing at Jindalee.“For decades now, we’ve been building out the tunnel network here in Brisbane, and I’ve been particularly interested to see that mega project reach its fruition,” Premier Steven Miles told journalists on Sunday.
How the government suggests the proposed Centenary Motorway bypass tunnel could work to help create a long-touted “western bypass” of Brisbane.Investigations by the Queensland Investment Corporation and the transport department will follow a model similar to the one behind a plannedthat could see the state government borrow against the future value of all south-east tolling rights, and ultimately retake control of them.
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