Thursday, 15 August 2024

 Jess WILSON (Kew) (14:54): (768) My question is to the Minister for Public and Active Transport. Will the minister consider reviewing the 109 tram route with a view to adding more accessible stops? I have raised the issue of the lack of accessible tram stops on the 48 and 109 tram routes before. Today I want to draw the minister’s attention to Cotham Road in Kew in particular, which is home to St George’s Health Service. Part of the St Vincent’s Hospital network, St George’s provides aged care, rehabilitation, geriatric evaluation and management and a number of community-based treatment services. It should be a no-brainer that there would be an accessible tram stop outside this facility for outpatients as well as visitors. Cotham Road will soon be home to a new joint venture between Medibank and over 40 specialist doctors offering a new model of care in the form of a short-stay surgical facility. Given these two facilities are in very close proximity to each other along the 109 ‍tram route, Cotham Road is the ideal location for new accessible tram stops.