Shadow Minister for Transport and Main Roads and Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson said the newly-released SEQIPP report was a fizzer.

Ms Simpson said SEQIPP, which was supposed to be the blueprint for infrastructure in South East Queensland, had become a complete waste of time with fudged costings and vague timelines for key projects.

“This document has failed to provide certainty for infrastructure delivery in South East Queensland. Here on the Sunshine Coast we know that the CAMCOS rail corridor, from Beerwah to Maroochydore, was supposed to have been delivered first stage by 2015 but the latest document vaguely lists it being undertaken sometime between 2020 and 2026.

“In Parliamentary Estimates Committee hearings last week, it was revealed that they haven’t done the preliminary cost evaluations for many road and transport projects in SEQIPP”, Ms Simpson said.

“SEQIPP is just hot air from Premier Bligh and Labor.”

“Last week in Parliamentary Estimates Committee hearings, I asked Minister for Main Roads when access roads would be built for the new Sunshine Coast Hospital site and he couldn’t answer that question either.

“Meanwhile they are wasting half a billion dollars on a water pipeline at the back of the Sunshine Coast which was designed to take the Traveston Dam water to Brisbane, even though Traveston Dam is dead.

“This revelation means SEQIPP can no longer be considered a working document which can seriously be used to guide the growth and development of SEQ.”