THE NSW budget confirmed beefed-up spending on crumbling regional roads as well as funding for new police stations for Queanbeyan and the South Coast.
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Queanbeyan Station, Moss Vale Police Station and Huskisson Police Station are all to receive upgrades or new buildings, as flagged earlier this year.
The budget includes a $9-million spend in 2015-16 on the Ellerton Drive Extension near Queanbeyan, and a $30 million Kings Highway, Monaro Highway and Kosciusko roads package.
The Kings and Monaro highways and the Kosciusko Road will each receive an additional $10 million for upgrades expected to be carried over the next two years.
Improvements include extra overtaking lanes and safety works, such as road shoulder widening and wire rope barriers, better signage and pavement work.
Member for Monaro John Barilaro said the Queanbeyan Police Station was now expected to cost $17 million, up from the $15 million previously thought.
"There is yet to be any design work done, so funding is allocated over four years, so what they will do this year is commence the planning and scoping," he said.
"We are building on the existing site, which makes it difficult to quantify."
The budget also delivered on key election commitments including a $10 million Queanbeyan distance education upgrade.
Currently, distance education facilities are run in conjunction with Queanbeyan Public School and Karabar High School. However, the new facility will stand alone but share the same site as Queanbeyan High School.
"The new distance education facilities will release space at Queanbeyan Public School and enable the removal of 12 demountables from Karabar High School," Mr Barilaro said earlier in the year.
The new distance education facility, which will cater for around 500 students, will provide functional spaces and deliver general and specialist educational support to students.
The state government also allocated $7 million for Queanbeyan road upgrades. It includes $5 million to install electronic signalling and traffic lights at a major intersection at Jerrabomberra.
A further $2 million will go toward sealing Wanna Wanna Road - the only unsealed road left in the Queanbeyan Local Government Area, Mr Barilaro has previously said.
Mr Barilaro said the 2015-16 Budget and forward estimates puts in place the framework for key election commitments in the Monaro to be delivered over the next four years.
"The NSW Government is providing record infrastructure and services and accelerating projects that will change this state forever," said Mr Barilaro.
"This budget sets up the blueprint needed to set in stone projects in the Monaro that will transform this region for generations to come."
Former Labor candidate for Monaro Steve Whan has previously said he supported better working conditions for Queanbeyan police but that it seemed the announcement was plucked out of a hat at the last minute.