"Looking at bypasses around towns, the towns have suffered greatly … I've argued the point to stop calling it a bypass and call it a freight route."
"So, you're talking about 420,000 trucks a year that might get diverted onto a bypass — about one truck a minute."
"Generally, freight projects are funded at an 80:20 split … but look, it's more than anyone's ever offered before,"he said.
"We get treated like the second-class citizens by the metropolitan politicians, and we should be entitled to at least a decent road to travel to our capital city."