Constituency questions
Gembrook electorate
Mr BATTIN (Gembrook) (14:33): (6246) My constituency question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. There are three roads in Victoria, all being widened with additional lanes. The alignments of each road are not changing. Land beside all roads was reserved for future upgrades. According to the Department of Transport none of these projects qualifies for sound barriers, but one of those projects, at the West Gate Tunnel site on Williamstown Road, has received sound barriers whilst two out in my electorate, on the Monash Freeway stage 2 and part of O’Shea Road, have been told it is too bad and they cannot get them. The residents of Woodlands Park retirement village and the residents along O’Shea Road between Clyde Road and the Monash Freeway are currently dealing with massive road projects that will bring more cars much closer to their front doors, yet despite pleas to the project managers, the Department of Transport and the minister herself these residents have been fobbed off or ignored. Their amenity will suffer. Minister, can you provide the evidence and advice to show why one project qualifies for sound barriers when the other two identical projects do not?