Money for freeway

Member for Robertson Mr Jim Lloyd has described the allocation of $500,000 to upgrade the F3 freeway as "a major breakthrough".
He told the inaugural meeting of the F3 Working Group that six years of pressuring Federal Governments of both persuasions had paid off.
Of the money, $200,000 would be spent this financial year and $300,000 would be spent next year on planning, design and costing of a freeway upgrade.
"This is a major breakthrough in our efforts to have the road widened and it is appropriate that this initial funding should come on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the re-opening of the Old Pacific Highway in June 1994.
"Obviously this is only the first step in what will be a major long term project, but it is official recognition that the F3 needs to be widened to cope with the ever-increasing volume of traffic."
He said that significant progress had also been made on the incident management plan with allocation of $1 million for safety improvements, emergency crossings and exits and replacement of median box gutters.
"The RTA has also recently introduced 24 hour mobile patrols on the F3 to provide earlier responses to traffic incidents," he said.
"Work on the $10 million electronic driver information system is progressing.
"Stage one installation commenced in March and the closed circuit TV monitoring at Berowra, Mooney and Mt White has now been installed, with the first of the variable message boards to be installed by July at Wahroonga and Kariong."