Coomera electorate projects can pave a road to recovery

AS we enter a further recovery stage from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is time to look to the future and what can be done to hasten economic recovery.

The Coomera electorate, encompassing the northern-most region of the Gold Coast, is perfectly positioned with shovel-ready projects to assist in that recovery.

Right now, under Labor, we’re stuck in the slow lane.

We have frustratingly slow progress on the congestionbusting upgrades at Exit 41 and 49, despite the Federal Government kicking in 50 per cent of the cost and making it immediately available.

So too, the case for the $15 million upgrade to the Coomera Train Station park-n-ride, 100 per cent funded by the Federal Government.

The recent announcement by Roads Minister Mark Bailey, that the business case for the second M1, five years in the making, still

FLIGHT Centre’s Graham Turner has done well out of me over the years.

Right now l am more than desperate for a 21-night stay in Chiang Mai, with a little shopping in Bangkok, at the end.

I have read his latest article carefully, and am hazarding a guess he is a man of many talents, and that apart from flogging air tickets, tours, resort stays, and insurance, he is also a qualified epidemiologist, a behavioural psychologist, and a financial guru all in one.

Pipe down, Mr Turner. You add precisely nothing to the solutions experts are searching for, without need of your assistance in any shape or form. DAVID HALL, COOMBABAH won’t be finalised until 2021, is another example of Labor stuck in the slow lane!

We need the Pimpama Railway Station fast tracked. It was promised by Labor before the 2017 election, but not being built until 2024, at the earliest!

This station is needed now, due to the huge growth in Pimpama, the fastest growing region in Queensland.

The silver lining on the COVID-19 pandemic storm cloud is that these fully-funded infrastructure projects can be fasttracked, with the duel benefit of helping us in the economic recovery stage, by providing thousands of jobs and delivering urgently needed infrastructure for the northern Gold Coast.

It is time for the northern Gold Coast to shine. The delays to infrastructure and investment have been going on for far too long.

MICHAEL CRANDON, MEMBER FOR COOMERA