![]() ![]() ![]() Detroit, being the Motor City, has long been the domain of cars with just the laughable People Mover and a horrendous bus system as the only daily mass transit in the area. The points-of-interest are faded out or non-existent, the People Mover is thrown in there, and without knowing the city you have no sense of scale for this 3.3-mile stretch of Woodward Avenue.īut I like the map, not for what it is, but for what it represents. The focus is on the individual sponsors of the various stops as a way to garner more commercial support for the project instead of it being an actual map. Hopefully, the official map once the line is up and running will tone down the sponsorship a lot (the way the Quicken Loans logo covers up the label for the Greyhound Bus Station is particularly awful) and focus more on how the line creates vital transportation connections for the people of Detroit.įirst, I do not think this is a good map. “It’s staggering the comment made a senior Morrison Government Minister and from a Minister who lives here, who a month ago celebrated Stage 3 commencement, who now turns around is not supportive of Stage 4,” Tate said.Submitted by Mike, who has a lot of good things to say, much of which I agree with. Tate today said her decision was ‘unfathomable”. “We cannot risk damaging local businesses, creating long-term traffic issues, and harming our environment with the current proposal. “I’ve stood with our community against the proposed light rail extension route for some time and the State Labor government and proponents of the project still haven’t listened or acted on local concerns and objections. Stage 4, however, is hotly rejected by local residents surrounding the proposed tram route, particularly through the booming suburb of Palm Beach, who say it is has negative environmental impacts, will cause traffic chaos, and is designed for people to pass through the suburb while offering no advantage to the people who live there.Īndrews’ McPherson electorate includes the southern Gold Coast suburbs, including Palm Beach, where opposition to the light rail Stage 4 registers most strongly on the Gold Coast.Īndrews said she made the move to pull funding as the current Stage 4 plans were “not good enough”. This leaves only Tate, the State Government and local Gold Coast Labor candidates in the upcoming election in support of the light rail, which advocates say is supported by 63 per cent of Gold Coast residents. Inaction and delays in coughing up the money was threating the Gold Coast’s vital road infrastructure project, State transport Minister Mark Bailey revealed today.Īs well as the delivery of federal funding for the Coomera Connector and light rail Stage 4, described as essential infrastructure ahead of the 2032 south-east Queensland Olympic Games, Tate wants federal money for a green-heart project in Robina and expansion of the Gold Coast’s Home of the Arts (HOTA).īut moving even further from failing to commit to federal capital spending on the Gold Coast and pouring fuel on fiery exchanges with Tate who is a long-term Liberal member, Andrews revealed that she had written to Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher asking him to block federal funds being directed to light rail Stage 4. It also comes as the heat was also turned up on the Federal Government for failing to release funding it had promised for the Coomera Connector, also called the second M1 project, on the northern Gold Coast.
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