Still looking for a car park: 2019 election promises stalled | swrighteconomy katinacurtis
were promised to Coalition seats, mostly across the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. In western Sydney, the seat of Lindsay was the only electorate through which the main suburban rail line runs that was promised car parks.was maintained by the office of then infrastructure minister Alan Tudge that was the starting point for commuter car park fund decisions.
The government has set aside $20 million for a car park promised at Camberwell in Mr Frydenberg’s Melbourne seat. This will provide an additional 90 car spaces, according to the Boroondara Council that is overseeing the project. “Any value-for-money assessment will be undertaken at the conclusion of the scoping stage when a final proposal will be put to the department,” he said. “We’ll undertake that value for money assessment and provide that detail to government to make the decision at that point.”It found one site, for a multi-deck car park, faced “various challenges”, including a high number of people who walked through the area as well as a “large number of cars and trucks”.
“You’re pretending it’s a genuine fund ostensibly for places that actually need commuter car parks and easing of urban congestion. And then you’re putting it in places where, one, there’s no assessment, two, they’re not needed and, three, they haven’t been built,” she said.
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