Tuesday, 5 March 2024

 Nicole WERNER (Warrandyte) (14:47): (538) My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and – you guessed it – it is about the Five Ways intersection in Warrandyte South again, because it is still not fixed and remains a top-of-mind issue for my constituents. I ask the minister what information and advice she has specifically received as to why Five Ways cannot be fixed. Just a few weeks ago another constituent wrote to me about his young daughter, who was nearly in a collision, a near miss, at Five Ways, and I hear stories like this every single week. The roads minister could be renamed the minister for copy and paste. She has consistently responded to my questions on Five Ways with the same variation on the paragraph each time, that ‘the Department of Transport and Planning has advised that due to the complex geometry’ et cetera, et cetera, so I hope that the minister this time provides a real answer on why they cannot fix the deadly Five Ways intersection.