ACT budget: How will it affect you?
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ACT Chief Minister and Treasurer Andrew Barr has handed down the first territory budget after last year's ACT election, with a predicted return to a balanced budget after the upcoming financial year.
The safe budget has come with few surprises as the Labor Government delivers on many of its election promises.
Find out where the Government has pledged to spend its money and how it will affect the area you live in.
Gungahlin
- New Black Rapid bus service between Gungahlin and Belconnen, with free travel for the first two months
- $26m to expand the capacity of schools by 844 students between Harrison, Gold Creek, Neville Bonner and Palmerston
- Planning for a new school in East Gungahlin
- Completion of the first stage of light rail from Gungahlin to Civic
- $32.8m to complete the duplication of Gundaroo Drive between Gungahlin Drive and the Barton Highway
- $1.2m to upgrade the intersection of the Federal Highway and Old Well Station Road
- New nurse-led Walk-In Centre for Gungahlin, worth $12.5m
- Undertaking scoping work for a possible future northside general hospital, complete with emergency department and operating theatres
Belconnen
- New Black Rapid bus service between Belconnen and Gungahlin, with free travel for the first two months
- School classroom and facility upgrades at Lake Ginninderra College, Aranda Primary and Melba-Copland High
- $5.9m to upgrade Belconnen High
- $15m to expand the Belconnen Arts Centre
- New Belconnen bikeway worth $4.7m
- New park play space at Giralang worth $100,000
- Planning for the extension of Bindubi Street and upgrades to William Hovell Drive
- University of Canberra Hospital, worth $207.4m, on track to be completed next year
- Undertaking scoping work for a possible future northside general hospital, complete with emergency department and operating theatres
Central Canberra
- New Green Rapid bus service from Civic to Woden via Manuka and Barton, with free travel for the first two months
- 10 new customised bike racks, designed by local artists
- School classroom and facility upgrades at Narrabundah Early Childhood School
- Completion of the first stage of light rail along Northbourne Avenue from Gungahlin to Civic
- New boardwalk and public park at Lake Burley Griffin's West Basin
- Upgrades to Haig Park
- $8m to upgrade to Dudley Street as part of the Canberra Brickworks project
- Planning for a new health centre for inner-north Canberra
- More firefighters to man a second crew at Ainslie Fire Station, to the value of $600,000
Woden
- New Green Rapid bus service from Woden to Civic via Manuka and Barton, with free travel for the first two months
- $3.2m for a makeover for the Woden Library
- School classroom and facility upgrades at Mount Stromlo High, Garran Primary and the Malkara School
- Planning for a new public school in Molonglo
- Moving forward with stage two of light rail from Civic to Woden
- Planning for a Molonglo east-west arterial road to link new suburbs
- $8m to upgrade to Dudley Street as part of the Canberra Brickworks project
- New Walk-In Centre for Weston Creek
Tuggeranong
- Extending the Blue Rapid bus service link from Kippax to Lanyon Market Place
- $8m for landscaping and outside furniture for Tuggeranong Town Centre and Kambah Village
- $2m towards planning for upgrades to the Monaro Highway between Johnson Drive and Canberra Avenue
- Upgrading facilities at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre
- Tuggeranong is expected to be the highest beneficiary of the ACT Government's plan to increase bulk-billing rates
- Improving Tharwa Village firefighting water supply, worth $3.2m
Topics: budget, states-and-territories, canberra-2600, act
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