Thursday, 23 June 2022
Members statements
Ferntree Gully train station car park
Ferntree Gully train station car park
Mr WAKELING (Ferntree Gully) (09:44): Last weekend I joined with Gareth Ward, the Liberal candidate for Monbulk, and many Ferntree Gully residents at a public meeting relating to the state government’s lack of transparency regarding the potential construction of a commuter car park at the Ferntree Gully railway station. Despite being invited, no members of the Andrews government attended the meeting. The Ferntree Gully community is aware that the former federal government allocated funding to the state government for this project. Three years later the Andrews government has failed to explain to residents if the car park will be built, and if so, where it will be built and at what scale, or if the car park is not going to be built what will happen to the funding that was allocated to the project. Like Lake Knox, this is just another example of the Andrews government failing to consult with the Knox community.