Mornington electorate bus services
Chris CREWTHER (Mornington) (09:54): The residents of Peninsula Grange and Beleura retirement villages in my electorate have been advocating for many years for a bus service to their retirement villages. I first met with them in January last year and have been advocating for them ever since. They have been fighting for years for the service. It is a service that would benefit not only thousands of local residents but also the residents at two retirement villages, St Macartan’s Parish Primary School and the local holiday village. There are existing bus stops and bus shelters in place that have been there for many years, so all that it would take is a simple change to routes 781 and 785 to effect this change that would benefit thousands of residents and take them to Mornington, to Frankston, to health services and to anywhere else that they need to go.
I was pleased during the campaign to go out with the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, the member for Caulfield, to make a commitment from the Liberals that if we were elected to government we would deliver these bus route changes. Unfortunately we were not elected to government. But I have invited an upper house member for Eastern Victoria, Labor’s Tom McIntosh, to a meeting with advocates from the retirement villages on 15 March, and I look forward to hopefully working with him and others on a bipartisan solution for these bus services.