Wednesday, 8 June 2022

Bass electorate roads

Ms CRUGNALE (Bass) (19:20): (6413) My adjournment is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the action I seek is an update on the continued investment in roads in Bass Coast and South Gippsland as part of the next road maintenance season, including the repairing, rehabilitation and resurfacing of roads across our area.

I would like to acknowledge that since 2014 the Andrews Labor government has rebuilt or resurfaced nearly 12 000 kilometres of roads across regional Victoria as part of the $464.7 million invested in maintaining regional Victoria’s road assets in the 2021–22 road maintenance blitz, out of a total investment of $762.6 million statewide. We saw multiple projects happening in my electorate of Bass and neighbouring Gippsland South. From the works on the Bass Highway at Wonthaggi to Korumburra-Wonthaggi Road at Kongwak, from the Princes Highway at Trafalgar to the South Gippy highway at Stony Creek and the Strzelecki Highway at Mirboo North and Leongatha, the blitz on regional roads has delivered great economic benefits to the community and supported the creation of local jobs. I welcome an update from the minister on our continued investments in the road maintenance season in my electorate and surrounds. I would also like to thank the crews who have worked tirelessly to rehabilitate, repair and resurface some of our state’s busiest and more important transport and travel routes.