Bega MP and NSW Treasurer Andrew Constance has pledged $110 million to duplicate the Batemans Bay Bridge.
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Mr Constance made the announcement at his official election campaign launch in Batemans Bay on Friday night. He said he would be seeking a mandate for raising the money needed and that it would come from the capital works budget and from the 49 per cent lease of the electricity distribution networks operated by Endeavour Energy, TransGrid and Ausgrid, the so-called "poles and wires sale".
"People in the area have had a gutfull of whats going on," he said, in regards to traffic congestion in and around Batemans Bay.
"We need a good traffic flow all year round."
Mr Constance described the leasing as a "pretty attractive sort of arrangement" and that similar schemes had proved successful elsewhere in Australia.
He also said that he was seeking $6 billion for infrastructure in regional NSW and that the union campaign warning against the Baird Government selling off public assets and instituting an American-style health system was an "absolute fraud."
"We are not going to have an American health system, and I say to them, point to any hospital we have sold, or any TAFE we have sold," he said.
Mr Constance pleaded with voters to stick with the government in the upcoming election.
"By rights it shouldn't be, but it is going to be a tight campaign," he said.
"This community deserves good governance, and Mike Baird is the right person to lead this state by a country mile."