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June 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has promised to kick start major motorway projects in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane within a year of becoming prime minister.
With polls consistently showing the coalition on course to win in a landslide Mr Abbott has pledged, if elected, to tackle congestion in Australia’s three biggest cities with $4 billion worth of cash injections.
In his address to the Liberal Party’s federal council in Melbourne on Saturday, Mr Abbott vowed that a federal coalition government would kick start construction on Sydney’s $10 billion M4 East extension with a $1.5 billion funding share to connect the city with the western suburbs.
Another $1.5 billion would go towards starting construction on Melbourne’s $5 billion East West Link tunnel.
A further $1 billion would be spent upgrading the Gateway Motorway linking the Brisbane suburb of Nudgee, near the coast, with the Bruce Highway, in the city’s northwest.
With a federal election due by the end of 2013, Mr Abbott was confident conservative state governments in NSW, Victoria and Queensland would back him if he was prime minister.
“These commitments will largely be met from within the Nation Building program and supplemented by responsible savings,” he told the Liberal Party council on Saturday.
“We will work with the states and the private sector to ensure that these projects have started to go ahead within 12 months of the next federal election because the Australian people need to know that our great cities are not at risk of gridlock.”
Prime Minister Julia Gillard criticised Mr Abbott for failing to explain where the funding would come from, or how the states would fund the projects.
But at a media conference in Melbourne on Saturday, Ms Gillard only mentioned Melbourne’s East West Link.
“Where is the 1.5 billion coming from? Did you get a fully costed sheet when Mr Abbott announced it? The answer to that is no,” she told reporters.
“So this is just a little mythical promise, $1.5 billion for a $5 billion project, and he can’t tell you where one cent is coming from.”
NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay welcomed the M4 East in Sydney, even though Infrastructure NSW’s 20-year priority list is not due for release until September.
“It would be so good for the community and commuters on a daily basis, the sort of things that need to be removed from the road, the fixing of congestion that’s just horrific,” Mr Gay told Macquarie radio on Saturday.
But a spokeswoman for the minister said the NSW government needed to look at the detail of Mr Abbott’s proposal.
“We’ll be sitting down and talking with the opposition to go through the proposal,” she said.
Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) welcomed Mr Abbott’s $4 billion plan for motorway projects in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
“Urban congestion is one of the most complex challenges facing Australia’s governments, imposing costs of more than $10 billion on the national economy each year,” IPA chief executive Brendan Lyon said in a statement.
Federal Labor MP Kelvin Thomson said governments should be building public transport rail infrastructure instead of motorways.
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