On Thursday, 31 July 2025, I asked the Director General of the Deparment of Transport and Main Roads about the status of funding for the proposed Gympie Road bypass.
You can read my question and the Director General's response below in full, or in the official Parliamentary record of proceedings here.
Mr BERKMAN: This one will be to the director-general in relation to plans for the Gympie Road bypass tunnel. Can you advise the committee what is the status of the $318 million over three years that was committed in the last budget under the previous government for ‘further work to undertake approvals and pre-construction investigations on the proposed Gympie Road tunnel’? I suppose, effectively, where in QTRIP is it, is the money still committed, how much has been spent, that sort of stuff.
Mr MICKELBERG: Can I seek clarification? That funding was previously allocated to Treasury. The director-general no doubt has an answer to this question, however, I make the point that that funding was with QIC under the former government.
Ms Stannard: There is a project in QTRIP which you will be able to see which is the Gympie Road Planning Program. That includes detailed planning for the Gympie Road corridor. It will consider improvements to congestion hotspots, including enhancements to road, public transport and active transport and it will consider short-, medium- and long-term solutions for that corridor.
In addition, my department will undertake a review of the planning that has been completed to date by the Queensland Investment Corporation for the Gympie Road bypass tunnel. What we are aiming to do is ensure we get an integrated network program by ensuring we consider that planning that has already been done together with planning at a multimodal level for the whole corridor. Our review will be able to provide the Queensland government with advice on the next steps and appropriate timing for infrastructure works in that corridor. In QTRIP there is a planning project called Gympie Road Planning Program.