Government caught in slow lane with M1 upgrade plans

THE LNP is the only party with a plan to build a Second M1.

We announced our plan over 1000 days ago because we understand the benefits of busting congestion between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and building infrastructure to stimulate the economy and create jobs.

An alternative to the M1 (pictured) could take up to 60,000 vehicles a day off the existing Pacific Motorway.

The Second M1 project will be a four-lane arterial road from Nerang-Broadbeach Rd to StapyltonJacobs Well Rd.

A Second M1 will reduce traffic pressure on the Pacific Motorway and provide alternative traffic routes in the case of an accident or severe congestion.

This will reduce congestion on the northern part of the M1 to get people home safer and sooner.

The LNP’s Second M1 will create over 3400 construction jobs and we will partner with the Commonwealth Government to get shovels in the ground.

In contrast, the Palaszczuk Labor Government have had more than five years in power and they haven’t even finished a business case.

Only last year Labor said construction would commence in 2023 and now, on the eve of an election, they are claiming it will start next year.

It shows that their heart just isn’t in it and with a $1.3 billion cut to infrastructure in the last financial year, you can’t trust Labor to deliver.

In fact in a letter to the Gold Coast Bulletin in March, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Transport Minister called the project the M2 five times – which is actually the Ipswich Motorway.

With almost 200,000 Queenslanders out of work and an unemployment rate worse than Victoria, Queenslanders need a government that will deliver infrastructure and create jobs – not play political games.

Only the LNP has a plan to stimulate the economy, create a decade of secure jobs and drag Queensland out of this recession.

The only way to build a Second M1 is to change the government on October 31 by voting for the LNP.

DEB FRECKLINGTON, QUEENSLAND LNP LEADER