Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Yan Yean electorate infrastructure

Lauren KATHAGE (Yan Yean) (13:17): I am really glad to share with the chamber that the preferred contractor for the Yan Yean Road upgrade stage 2, Decmil, has been announced. Decmil is getting to work on the northern part of that upgrade, which is going to make traffic flow so much smoother and so much faster. It is a well-anticipated road upgrade in my community, and I am so glad to see that it is going to be getting underway.

People in our community are also going to benefit from the M80 Ring Road completion project. Anybody who has been past there recently would have been amazed to see those amazing totems – the bridge piers – go up, so that we are going to have an actual end to the M80. We are also going to have an extra lane added between Plenty Road and that amazing overpass. Whether you are in Doreen or Mernda, you are going to be able to get very smoothly and very quickly to Box Hill for dumplings, say, or if you want to get into the city to work, why not? You could do that too.

If you are in Donnybrook, or even in Wallan, and you are looking to get to work, there is going to be an extra train to take you to work in the morning and bring you home to your family, because we all know that we want to get the next train – the soonest train – home to be with our families. I am so proud that our government is delivering that for Donnybrook, Wallan, Wandong and Heathcote Junction.