{"id":2286,"date":"2019-04-15T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2019-04-15T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:56:18","slug":"labor-commits-60-million-for-central-coast-roads-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/labor-commits-60-million-for-central-coast-roads-package\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR COMMITS $60 MILLION FOR CENTRAL COAST ROADS PACKAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div id=\"intro\" class=\"intro\">\n<div class=\"content\">\nA Shorten Labor Government will fast track $60 million worth of road works planned for the New South Wales Central Coast to ease traffic congestion and improve road safety in this fast-growing region.<br \/>\nLabor\u2019s Central Coast Roads Rescue Package will allow the Central Coast Council to complete the road improvements planned for the next decade in only four years.<br \/>\nAccelerating these road upgrades and repairs will create jobs and economic activity, while reducing delays for motorists and making a practical improvement to the lives of the 350,000 residents of this beautiful part of Australia.<br \/>\nMost importantly, the work will save lives by making the roads safer.<br \/>\nThe geography of the Central Coast, with its abundance of beaches, lakes and national parks, presents a particular challenge when it comes to maintaining transport networks.<br \/>\nSeventy per cent of the region\u2019s residents rely upon motor vehicles to move around, and nearly a quarter travel outside the region each weekday to work.<br \/>\nThe NRMA has calculated that these challenges, and years of under-investment, have created a backlog of road work valued at $84 million \u2013 the largest backlog of any region in New South Wales.<br \/>\nFederal Labor\u2019s Roads Rescue Package will help the Central Coast Council clear the backlog and ease traffic congestion, boosting productivity and liveability for residents.<br \/>\nAfter nearly six years of cuts and chaos from the Liberals and Nationals, Australia needs a Shorten Labor Government prepared to work with other levels of government to provide practical solutions to the infrastructure challenges facing the nation.<br \/>\nThe Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government has cut investment in roads and public transport and allowed traffic congestion to worsen under its watch.<br \/>\nIn its first budget, the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government cut support for local government around the country, including freezing Financial Assistance Grants to the Central Coast for three years.<br \/>\nBy contrast, Labor has a comprehensive plan to ease congestion in our big cities, as well as in growing regions such as the New South Wales Central Coast.<br \/>\nLabor\u2019s Central Coast Roads Rescue Package is in addition to the extra Roads to Recovery funding that is already built into the federal budget.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shorten Labor Government will fast track $60 million worth of road works planned for the New South Wales Central Coast to ease traffic congestion and improve road safety in this fast-growing region. Labor\u2019s Central Coast Roads Rescue Package will allow the Central Coast Council to complete the road improvements planned for the next decade &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/labor-commits-60-million-for-central-coast-roads-package\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR COMMITS $60 MILLION FOR CENTRAL COAST ROADS PACKAGE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}