Mrs SALLY QUINNELL (Camden) (15:05): I understand the concerns of the member for Shellharbour that people in her community of Dapto and West Dapto do not currently have fair access to the M1 because the people of Camden do not have access to the M5. Currently, Camden residents have a single road to get from the Camden electorate—the whole electorate—to the M5 motorway, and that is via Narellan Road. When doorknocking before the election, people were telling me it can take them as long in time to get from Camden to the M5 as it does to travel from Narellan to the city because the traffic on Narellan Road is at a complete standstill. Twelve years of neglect of the Camden electorate has led to unprecedented amounts of growth, and yet we have no extra access to the major motorway that takes us to our hospitals, to our schools and to the city for work.

The Spring Farm Parkway, so called because it was once planned to go through Spring Farm, has only been started on the Menangle or Campbelltown side of the M5. Stage one has started, even though the Spring Farm community was built five years ago, so people from Spring Farm currently have zero access, except to go through the suburbs of Narellan, Mount Annan and Currans Hill to get to the M5. The hypocrisy of those on the other side to talk about commitments to motorways is actually enraging to the people of Camden. When doorknocking before the election, people were telling me, time and time again, that these commitments to Spring Farm Parkway and access to the motorways is what led them to build in communities such as Spring Farm.

The lack of infrastructure planning and delivery by those opposite when they were in government for over 12 years has meant that people now spend hours and hours commuting to work—some in excess of two hours to get to work—because they have been forced onto roads that were already overcrowded. The people of Camden elected a Labor representative because they are outraged and disgusted. They have come to me in droves to talk about the slowness of Spring Farm Parkway as an access road to the M5. It has been absolutely glacial progress. The former Government kept approving new developments without any extra road infrastructure in the area, which has led us now to a situation of gridlock on our roads during peak hour. It is a real problem for the people of Camden, and we completely understand what it must be like for the people of Dapto and West Dapto, that after 12 years of complete neglect we have had no access to get to the services that we need. The people have spoken; they are tired of it.