Warrandyte electorate
Nicole WERNER (Warrandyte) (14:53): (518) My constituency question is to the Minister for Public and Active Transport. Why is there such a lack of bus services on Tindals Road in Warrandyte? I raise this on behalf of a courageous constituent in my electorate Mrs Kim Coulson, who wrote to me saying she has three children and no choice but to drive them everywhere as there is no bus anywhere near them at the Harris Gully end of Tindals Road. Not only that, the road for her children to walk to an existing bus 50 minutes away on Warrandyte Road has no footpath at all and has a 70-kilometre limit, much of which runs out and requires walking on the road itself, which is very unsafe for her children. In 2019 Kim was in a serious car accident which rendered her unable to drive her kids to school. Because of the state of the roads and bus services, her kids could not go to school because she was unable to take them. To quote Kim, they have been left for dead, and it needs to change urgently.