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Inaugural Pacific Highway Report Card released
In the News - New South Wales

FEDERAL Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay this week released the inaugural Pacific Highway Report Card.

The report card, which is to be released twice yearly, will enable progress to be tracked on the full duplication of the Pacific Highway.

Mr Albanese said with the upgrade of the Highway gathering pace, the Federal and NSW governments were determined to be open and accountable via regular updates to the community on the work underway as well as the timing and staging of what remains to be done.

"Already we've backed up our pledge to complete the job sooner rather than later with a significant increase in State and Federal funding," Mr Albanese said.

NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay said last year the State Government committed to producing and releasing regular progress report in response to calls from the community for greater accountability and transparency.

"Today we've delivered on this commitment with the release of the inaugural Report Card covering the period between July and December 2011," Mr Gay said on Thursday.

"As promised it details all the projects underway as well as those scheduled to begin in the near future."

The Pacific Highway Duplication, labelled the most complex and expensive road project ever undertaken in Australia, is being jointly funded by the Federal ($4.1 billion) and NSW ($1 billion) governments.

At the end of 2011, more than half the road had been rebuilt, with work underway on a further 11 per cent.

The Pacific Highway Report Card is available from the NSW Roads and Maritime Services website at <http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/pacific>.

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