Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett has answered the calls of the Discovery Coast communities by committing $2 million to flood-proof Fingerboard Road.
Mr Bennett has announced that an LNP Government will invest $2 million in the design work to flood-proof Fingerboard Road – the main access route from Miriam Vale to Agnes Water, Seventeen Seventy and Baffle Creek.
Mr Bennett said that only the LNP was fair dinkum about delivering the road upgrades the people of Burnett desperately needed.
“For too long the communities of Agnes Water, Seventeen Seventy and Baffle Creek have suffered because of inaction from Annastacia Palaszczuk,” Mr Bennett said.
“This is why an LNP Government will invest $2 million – under our renewed Royalties for Regions Program – for comprehensive design work to raise the height of Fingerboard Road for flood-proofing the main road access for these communities.”
Mr Bennett said Agnes Water, Seventeen Seventy and Baffle Creek had been cut off too often during rain events – stranding residents and tourists and heavily impacting the local economy.
“I have campaigned vigorously on this issue and I am really excited to announce this funding to secure the future sustainability of these communities.
“The LNP is committed to better planning and budgeting to make these important local projects a reality.”
Discovery Coast Tourism and Commerce President Amber Rodgers welcomed the announcement and thanked the LNP for its commitment to flood-proof the main access to the region.
“DCTC supports this progress and we are very appreciative of Stephen Bennett’s continued lobbying towards this importance cause,” Mrs Rodgers said.
“We are an area reliant on tourism as our main industry, and we desperately need Fingerboard Road to be flood-proofed to protect the sustainability of our communities, so we are pleased that our voices have been heard.
“DCTC consists of both businesses and individuals within the community, and collectively we will ensure that we do whatever we can do to support this progress and get this project off the ground, sooner rather than later.”
LNP Leader Tim Nicholls said only the LNP’s Stephen Bennett will deliver the flood-proofing of Fingerboard Road for the Burnett community.
“Only a vote for Stephen Bennett will see this project become a reality,” Mr Nicholls said.
“A vote for anyone other than the LNP will see a return of a do-nothing Labor Government which has the wrong priorities and has taken the people of Burnett granted and not delivered.
“The design work for raising Fingerboard Road is all a part of our plan to Build a Better Queensland by Building a Better Burnett.”
Thursday, 2 November 2017