Mount Atkinson bus services
Luba GRIGOROVITCH (Kororoit) (19:25): (658) My adjournment is to the Minister for Public and Active Transport. The action I seek is for the minister to join me at a Mount Atkinson community residents meeting to hear from residents about the need for a public bus to be implemented in their community. Residents currently living in the Mount Atkinson and Grandview estates have to walk 50 minutes to the nearest public transport option. Whether that be Rockbank station or Neale Road to catch a bus, a 50-minute walk in Australia’s fastest growing LGA is simply not acceptable. These two estates are currently home to over 7000 residents and this figure is growing, with 72 families moving into the Melton LGA each week. I regularly hear from residents that they are putting their children in rideshare services just so they can attend their zoned primary school or high school. While it is welcome news for my community that walking paths are being funded in Kororoit so that those residents who walk for 50 minutes along Hopkins Road can now do so safely, it is not the news that they really want or need to hear. These residents need a public bus that will connect them to their community and get them to and from work and school, so I hope that the minister can join me at a residents meeting with community members and hear these stories firsthand from the residents of these estates.