Canungra has borne the brunt of bad planning from the State Labor Government, with development in the region seeing huge amounts of traffic going through Canungra each day – with no upgrades to the road network.
For locals around Canungra, for businesses in Canungra, for families dropping kids off at school in Canungra, and for visitors to Canungra, this is a safety and congestion problem that will not go away. Main Roads and the Miles Government have simply buried their heads in the sand and wished the problem away.
I have fought for many years, together with council, to get Main Roads on the job to deal with these issues.
Fixing the traffic problems must be put back on the agenda, along with making sure that housing and future planning for the region does not make the problem worse – this includes insuring water security for the town. I welcome the fact that Seqwater is looking at options now after many years of asking them to do that.
It is clear that the current government will not give planning in Canungra the attention it needs, given their track record, but that is my commitment to the people of the region into the future.
Watch Jon’s recent speech in Queensland Parliament here.
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