Wednesday, 16 October 2024

 Wayne FARNHAM (Narracan) (19:18): (869) My adjournment this evening is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the action I seek is the immediate investigation and rectification of the Thorpdale slip. It is a section of road halfway between Trafalgar and Thorpdale, and the locals obviously call it Thorpdale slip, but this road now has been like this for 20-plus years. I know my predecessor Gary Blackwood brought this up with the government many times, but the problem is there is a very, very large volume of truck movements down this hill, and this road continually slips into a valley. Regional Roads Victoria are there quite often putting more crushed rock in and everything else, but it is getting dangerous, and when you have got an area like Thorpdale, which is a very, very high-producing area of fruit and vegetables – 70 per cent of Australia’s brushed potatoes come off this hill – and when you have got B-doubles going down this hill it will be only a matter of time before a serious accident happens. So I would really like the minister for roads to start investigating the rectification of this. I think over 20 years is way too long in anyone’s mind. It needs to be fixed, and it needs to be fixed urgently before something more serious happens.