Thursday, 16 November 2023

Five Ways intersection, Warrandyte

Nicole WERNER (Warrandyte) (17:29): (459) My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. The action I seek from the minister is for her to publicly release the advice provided by the Department of Transport and Planning that determined the significant changes needed to upgrade the Five Ways intersection in Warrandyte South as cited in her answer on 24 October. The Five Ways intersection at Croydon Road, Brumbys Road, Ringwood-Warrandyte Road and Husseys Lane in Warrandyte South is perilous. In the few weeks since my last adjournment there have been multiple crashes at the Five Ways intersection, with one occurring as recently as yesterday. These incidents have become a sad fact of life for the people in my electorate.

We have before us what I would call a very optimistic government. They want Victorians to believe in their ability to build a $200 billion, 90-kilometre Suburban Rail Loop across the state, construct a train line to the airport and eliminate every level crossing. However, they still seem unable to address and fix the hazardous Five Ways intersection in the community of Warrandyte South. It does not pass the pub test. That is why I am asking to see the advice that determines that an intersection that has had so many crashes, so many incidents and a fatality is not worth fixing. In my last adjournment matter on Five Ways I said that it was my honest hope that I would not be standing here again asking why this deadly intersection was not fixed before the inevitable happened again. Unfortunately another crash happened as recently as yesterday, and it could have been prevented if we had fixed the Five Ways intersection. I shudder to think of how many more crashes will occur before the government takes action on this intersection, but I will do everything that I can until Five Ways is fixed, because the sooner it is fixed, the sooner these preventable and inevitable crashes will come to an end.