Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Gembrook electorate

Mr BATTIN (Gembrook) (14:44): (870) My question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. The federal government have provided much-needed funding for train station car parks at Officer and Beaconsfield railway stations. Thanks to the federal member for La Trobe, Jason Wood, $15 million was provided for each project—ample money for the additional 1000 car parks in total. It came as a shock when looking at the 2019–20 budget that there has been no listing of these projects and there is nothing in the forward estimates for the essential works to get these car parks started.

Several constituents in my electorate contact me each week regarding the great need for additional car parks at Beaconsfield and Officer. Six families a day are moving into Cardinia, and each week the government delays construction of the car parks the streets surrounding train stations are getting more and more congested. The problem at Beaconsfield has gotten so bad that residents are struggling to put their bins out. Minister, can you please provide a time line on construction of the additional car parks at the Officer and Beaconsfield railway stations?