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Priority of projects

19 Apr 2016

Q. Do you think the following projects should be high, moderate or low priority for the Federal Government?

  High priority Medium priority Low priority Don’t know   High priority vote Labor High priority vote Lib/Nat High priority vote Greens High priority vote other
Building more suburban rail lines in cities 33% 41% 17% 9% 33% 36% 28% 33%
Building more freeways 29% 38% 25% 8% 27% 36% 16% 27%
Building more regional rail lines 28% 44% 18% 10% 28% 32% 24% 37%
Building high speed rail between capital cities 28% 37% 27% 9% 25% 37% 31% 21%
Building more bicycle paths in cities 20% 29% 43% 9%   20% 15% 34% 27%

 

33% think that building more suburban train lines is a top priority for the Government.

20% think that building more bicycle paths is a top priority.

High speed rail, regional rail lines and freeways received similar support. Liberal/National voters were more likely to support all proposals except bike paths.

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