Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Thank you Madam Chair. It's a great pleasure to be able to stand and take a call on Vote Transport in this debate this afternoon and for the first time to be able to stand up and feel genuinely enthusiastic about the direction of the Government in the shaping and the support for our communities. Transport is one of those issues where sometimes we don't recognise what a critical role it plays in our lives—that actually it shapes our towns and our cities and our ability to move around and get to where we want to go and how much time we have to spend with our families and do things we love as well as being essential to the running of business.For the last nine years and the six that I've been in this House in Opposition I've heard our debates and our discussions about transport all centred on this idea about these roads of national significance. Having lived in a community where one of those was imposed on us cutting through a beautiful beautiful part of the country—in which now the people in my community spend their time stuck in cars driving through that scar on our landscape—it is wonderful to see within this Government the direction of rebalancing and moving away from spending where it has been $11 billion—Matt King: Let's go back to the Amish days!JAN LOGIE: —over the last few years on seven roads. And I'm hearing a member of the Opposition saying that what I'm obviously speaking about is going back to being Amish and using horses and carts. That's the level of their discourse: it's either $11 billion and seven roads or you're back to horse and cart. Well actually I think I've got a slightly more modern view on public transport and transport than that.Actually what we are talking about is getting great public transport and supporting people to be able to live their lives and be healthy and well and get around easily. We know that how we'll achieve that is through good public transport and rail and walking and cycling as well as safe roads. So what this Government has done is several things. Part of it is rebalancing towards our regions. So we've heard from the Opposition What about this terrible ripping money out of regional communities?" Well actually it flies in the face of all of the evidence of this Government. What this Government is doing is putting money back into our local roads our regional roads rather than these tiny little vanity projects that the previous Government flew a flag for which hardly affected anyone at all.So what we are doing is now putting money into over half of the country. The transport movements happen on our regional roads and nothing really was done nor was money put towards the safety on those roads to enable people to move around safely. This Government is changing that and this Government is putting the investment into getting our major city moving as well. That is around enabling rail to be considered in the National Land Transport Fund and system which is critical for our future. Rail is central to the future vision of transport. I heard a previous member of the Opposition talking about how the Government is obviously kind of doctoring the books by looking at changing the cost-benefit analysis and that's really just to justify rail when it can't be justified—I really really wish they would catch up. Our communities our public health experts and our transport experts have been telling us for a really long time that we need to start recognising the value of things beyond just being able to move from here to there in the quickest possible way."