Annastacia Palaszczuk and Jackie Trad’s claim Brisbane’s Cross River Rail project is “shovel ready” is nothing but one big con.
Deputy LNP Leader and Shadow Infrastructure Minister Deb Frecklington said Cross River Rail had become hopelessly stalled.
“Labor has bungled the Cross River Rail project from the start,” Ms Frecklington said.
“Honestly, both Annastacia Palaszczuk and Jackie Trad couldn’t deliver the mail let alone the infrastructure Queensland needs.
“Quasi-Labor leader Jackie Trad has had more than two years to get her pet project off the ground but she has failed dismally at every hurdle.
“There is a secret business case, deadlines have been missed time and time again and Labor certainly has no money for this project.
“The only thing Jackie Trad has done so far is to create a bureaucratic behemoth in the way of a so-called delivery authority so highly-paid bureaucrats can sit around and talk about the project.”
Ms Frecklington said the only plan Jackie Trad had for Cross River Rail was to slug Queenslanders with secret taxes to raise billions of dollars to attempt to fund her shiny new tunnel.
“Jackie Trad has missed deadline after deadline when it comes to this project,” she said.
“Now she is claiming the latest reincarnation over the project’s design will cost Queenslanders less money.
“Don’t be fooled – when Labor says something is going to cost less you can bet your bottom dollar there will be a massive blow out in costs.
“In the latest reincarnation of the project, Jackie Trad embarrassingly had to move the proposed Albert Street station because she had no idea the first one would have been subjected to flooding.
“Jackie Trad’s pie-in-the-sky Cross River Rail has been bungle after bungle.”
