2020 POLICY DOCUMENT A Real Bruce Plan 2 WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN 1 Message from the Premier Our strong health response allows us to focus on our economic recovery including investing in key economic assets like the Bruce Highway - Queensland’s economic artery. My government has locked in at least $1 billion per year under our Bruce Highway Trust with the Federal Government. Right now, we are transforming the Bruce around Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Gympie and the Sunshine Coast with 33 projects underway, supporting thousands of regional jobs. While we continue to take the fight to Canberra for our fair share of funding on the Bruce, I am proud we are now delivering on our $1 billion per year Bruce Guarantee. That’s double the annual average under the former Newman - Frecklington Government, which shows the LNP’s unfunded promises this time can’t be trusted. Our Real Bruce Plan will guarantee a reliable pipeline of real and shovel ready projects. We’ll bolster our existing $12.6 billion 15 year plan by: 1. Progressing dual laning 2. Flood proofing the Bruce 3. Building the Second Bruce – an inland freight highway for Queensland that will take trucks off the Bruce 4. Reducing fatalities by 60% by 2030. The Bruce Trust brings together experts from peak bodies like the RACQ and QTA and will be expanded to include 6 extra representatives from communities along the Bruce north of Gympie to Cairns. Together, we can realise our long-term vision for the Bruce which will create local jobs and help our economy recover, while cutting travel times and making our national highway safer and easier to travel. Annastacia Palaszczuk PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND 2 WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN 3 Our Commitment The Palaszczuk Government will build on its existing record investment of $3.7 billion in Bruce Highway upgrades since 2015, and 33 projects currently underway, including the $1 billion Gympie Bypass. Our fully funded Real Bruce Plan will fast track safety improvements, flood proofing and dual laning by working with the Federal Government to: Deliver our $1.5 billion Bruce Highway Progress dual laning of the Bruce, by Safety Package continuing delivery of 6 dual laning projects currently under construction Reduce the rate of fatalities on the Bruce Highway by 60% over the next 10 years Prioritise upgrades between Mackay and under a Safer Bruce 2030 Action Plan Proserpine, and between Gladstone and estimated to save 13 lives every year Rockhampton with a proposed jointly- funded $500 million injection, with state Expand the Bruce Highway Trust with funding locked in 6 additional regional members to include users, road safety and regional Take trucks off the Bruce by committing development experts $200 million to building a better inland freight route - the Second Bruce, Continue our $1 billion per year Bruce building on our existing jointly funded Guarantee, with a 2-year growth path of $125 million Townsville to Roma ROSI $1.6 billion committed in 2021-22, program $1.9 billion in 2022-23 Floodproof the Bruce - building a minimum one-in-one-hundred-year flood immunity standard for the entire Bruce Highway, and more resilience with the Second Bruce. Continue record Prioritise local jobs, investment in the Bruce Highway contractors and suppliers Floodproof the Bruce Take trucks off the to support locals and our Bruce with the economy Second Bruce 4 WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN Haughton River Floodplain Upgrade This $514.3 million joint project is currently being built under the Palaszczuk Government’s Bruce Plan. It’s one of the largest projects the region has ever seen, supporting 550 local jobs, with 90 per cent of contracts awarded to local businesses. Quarry material from Giru, Ayr and Townsville are transported to site by trucks from the Burdekin and compacted by machinery from Townsville and the Burdekin. 13.5 km of the Bruce will be upgraded with 5 new bridges, 2 overpasses and intersection upgrades between Townsville and Ayr. This part of the Bruce currently gets cut off by flooding on average every 1 to 2 years - significantly impacting locals, tourists and truckies. WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN 5 The Palaszczuk Government’s Record The Palaszczuk Government has been 33 Bruce Highway upgrades are underway successfully delivering the $12.6 billion, joint right now and an additional 125 projects are 15-year Bruce Highway Upgrade Program being planned and designed. which supports 2,500 jobs across Queensland. We’re delivering an additional 61km of dual lanes between Gympie and Cairns including: We have delivered record investment in the Bruce Highway with $3.7 billion worth of Rockhampton Ring Road – 5km upgrades since 2015. Edmonton to Gordonvale – 10km Under our existing Bruce plan we have Gympie Bypass – 30km delivered: Townsville Ring Road (Stage 5) – 6km Townsville Northern Access – 5km 380 Bruce Highway upgrades Rockhampton Northern Access – 75 overtaking lanes 5km. 51 new bridges 798km of wide centreline treatment 125 protected right-hand turns 27 new rest areas. 6 WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN Yeppen South Upgrade (Bernaraby to Rockhampton) This $296 million upgrade delivered under the Palaszczuk Government ensures Rockhampton and Northern Queensland are not cut off despite our worst weather. The benefits of this upgrade were on display during Cyclone Debbie and floods in the Fitzroy River Basin catchment. Five Bruce Highway intersections were also upgraded decreasing local congestion and improving safety. Thousands of Queensland jobs are being Following our commitment to a $1 billion supported by the Bruce Highway projects per year Bruce Trust at the 2017 election, underway under our government, including: we were successful in getting the Federal Government to increase their commitment to $481 million Bruce Highway upgrade from Edmonton to Gordonvale in the Bruce. Cairns – 466 jobs In May 2018, an additional $3.3 billion in $104 million Cairns Southern Access federal funding was committed - an average Kate to Aumuller Streets bridge decks of $666 million per year. – 113 jobs $514 million Haughton River Since then we’ve called for an additional Floodplain project at Giru, 40km south $134 million per year to be committed – their of Townsville – 544 jobs fair share under our $1 billion a year Bruce $1 billion Gympie Bypass (Cooroy to Highway guarantee. Curra Section D) – 576 jobs They told us that the current funding is “more $932 million Bruce Highway upgrade than sufficient” – an insult to Queenslanders. from Caloundra Road to the Sunshine Motorway – 680 jobs The Bruce is part of the National Land $662 million Bruce Highway Transport Network, and therefore, the Caboolture to Steve Irwin Way early Federal Government is responsible for works – 664 jobs (for the entire funding it at 80%. project) $121 million Rockhampton Northern We will continue to take the fight to Canberra Access Upgrade – 260 jobs. for Queensland’s fair share of funding for the Bruce to get more upgrades done sooner. WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN 7 Bruce Highway: Bypasses and Ring Roads - In Delivery Dual laning projects along the Bruce Highway to improve safety and travel times. Region Status Cairns $359 million committed for Cairns Ring Road Innisfail $9 million committed for planning and preservation Ingham $48 million committed for Ingham to Cardwell Range Deviation Townsville $230 million Townsville Ring Road Stage 5 underway, following completion of TRR Stage 4 Mackay $497 million Stage 1 Mackay Ring Road complete, $150 million Walkerston Bypass underway and $350 million MRR 2 in planning Rockhampton $1.065 billion committed to build Rockhampton Ring Road Childers $8 million committed for planning and preservation Tiaro $107 million committed to address flood immunity and remove heavy vehicles from Tiaro Gympie $1 billion Bypass under construction The Newman- Frecklington Record The LNP’s recent Bruce announcement is As Newman’s Assistant Minister, Deb an unfunded sham. Frecklington delivered just 4 projects on the Bruce. Deb Frecklington and the LNP have just $50 million in funding locked in for consultants, The only new project-level commitment by not bitumen. The only thing the LNP will the State LNP is to build on and off ramps at deliver is road funding cuts. Dohles Rocks Road. Campbell Newman promised to ‘spruce the Based on expert advice, that would add up Bruce’ in 2014 after his LNP government to an extra 20 minutes commuting time, ripped $1.6 billion from Queensland’s roads cost an additional $27 million per annum budget and sacked over 700 road builders. on congestion, and reduce average speeds to 39 kilometres per hour in the afternoon Federal Bureaucrats Confirm LNPs Bruce peak. Plan A Hoax The fact Deb Frecklington and the LNP Questioning from Labor Senator, Murray Watt at Senate Estimates on 19 October 2020 has exposed have stolen Campbell Newman’s old slogan the LNP’s Bruce Highway hoax: to promote her unfunded Bruce Highway scam should ring alarm bells. ‘We don’t have a figure to duplicate the entire Bruce Highway’ - Assistant Secretary, Department of This is the same LNP with the same plan for Infrastructure Queensland – cutting, sacking and selling. ‘But there’s no commitment at this point in time to deliver the 80/20 share that is assumed in this Election Commitment from the Queensland Opposition?’ Senator Watt ‘Not that I am aware of’ - Secretary, Department of Infrastructure 8 WORKING TOGETHER FOR QUEENSLAND A REAL BRUCE PLAN Our Plan for Queensland Expanded Bruce Highway Trust - locals to call the shots Under our plan, the Bruce Highway Trust The existing Bruce Highway Trust Advisory will set ambitious targets to improve safety, Council will be expanded with 6 additional increase duplication along the Bruce members to include users, road safety and Highway and implement a minimum one-in- regional development experts from along one-hundred-year flood immunity standard the Bruce Highway north of Gympie.