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GDE duplication by 2012, but rethink costs $20m

May 27, 2009

The ACT Government would have saved $20m if from the start it had built the Gungahlin Drive Extension as a four-lane rather than two-lane road.

Roads ACT director Tony Gill told the estimates committee yesterday the duplication of the Gungahlin Drive Extension would be finished by June 2012 “at the latest”. Mr Gill said had the road been made four-lanes from the start there would have been a 10 per cent saving on the $200 million project, or $20 million.

The Government has now allocated $84.6 million to duplicate the GDE from the Barton Highway to Glenloch Interchange after the 9km, two-lane road was finished in April last year.

Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said if the Government had gone ahead with the full project, that meant $85 million worth of other roads that would not have been built in the meantime and he asked the Opposition to nominate which road works should not have proceeded.

Opposition territory and municipal services spokesman Alistair Coe said that argument was farcical and the taxpayer had forked out an extra $20 million for the Government’s mismanagement.

Source: The Canberra Times - 27 May 2009.
The Canberra Times is published by The Federal Capital Press Pty Ltd - 9 Pirie Street, Fyshwick.

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