Tuesday, 28 May 2024

 Sam GROTH (Nepean) (14:42): (656) My question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. I rise to again raise the issue of sound barriers along the Mornington Peninsula Freeway. I have raised this issue with the minister in the past, who not only advised me there is no government plan to address the issues that those residents through Dromana, McCrae and Rosebud are experiencing but also pushed back the responsibility onto the struggling property owners. In a letter she actually said that in the meantime residents can install insulation, acoustic window glazing and sealing gaps around their own windows and doors. The government is aware that the threshold to intervene and provide infrastructure to counteract noise pollution sits at around 68 decibels, and VicRoads has confirmed that the impacted stretch of the freeway has been professionally measured and exceeds this threshold. There is also medical evidence that when sound is above that threshold it is detrimental to health. So when will the government take responsibility, intervene and implement noise attenuation measures to address this issue for those residents along that stretch of road?