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TROPIC • REPORT CARD

Project pipeline

ELECTION PROMISES
Plenty of money and promises
for Cairns were thrown around
during campaigning for the
2020 Queensland election.
Three months on, Tropic looks
into the delivery timelines for
the major projects the ALP
Government promised.
Credit: Advance Cairns
PROJECT PROJECT PROJECT
Cairns Marine Precinct Cairns Hospital Western Arterial Road Duplication
WHAT IT WILL DELIVER WHAT IT WILL DELIVER WHAT IT WILL DELIVER
An 80-metre wharf and a 100-metre 16.5 million towards the Cairns University Increasing the road from two to four lanes
wharf for in-water maintenance on Hospital (JCU) land acquisition and from the Cairns CBD to the Barron River,
vessels used by the Australian Defence business case including doubling the capacity of the
Force and Australian Border Force. $26.4 million to expand the Cairns existing rail overpass.
Some of the funding has also been Hospital emergency department
set aside for a business case for $11.5 million to establish a new Youth PROMISED AMOUNT
$60 million
future growth.
Rehabilitation Centre
PROMISED AMOUNT 9,475 extra frontline health staff across WHERE IT’S AT
Labor has promised work will begin on
$30 million the state duplicating the section from Redlynch
WHERE IT’S AT WHERE IT’S AT Connector Road to Kamerunga Road once
There has been no update since the Any purchases of land for either the the current Harley Street intersection
funding announcement in September. University Hospital or the Youth upgrade work is complete, scheduled for
Rehabilitation Centre have not been early this year. The section from Redlynch
made public. The business case for the Connector Road to the Captain Cook
expansion of the emergency department Highway is still in the ‘business case’ phase
has been done, but a construction and $12.45 million has been set aside
commencement date is yet to be set. for planning and design. The full cost of
construction has been estimated at almost
$365.5 million.

Credit: Ports North Credit: Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads

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