Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Pascoe Vale electorate

Anthony CIANFLONE (Pascoe Vale) (14:52): (1107) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. How will the new road safety upgrades on the Gaffney Street corridor help improve road safety for all local residents and vulnerable road users across Pascoe Vale? Following extensive advocacy, engagement and consultation with local residents – namely, Pascoe Vale Primary School community members – I was delighted to have secured much-needed funding and designs to help make the Gaffney Street corridor safer for all, essentially between Cumberland Road and Pascoe Vale Road. On 23 April 2025 I was delighted to have joined with the Minister for Roads and Road Safety to inform locals that construction had now commenced to make Gaffney Street safer for all, with works to provide for the installation of a raised and signalised pedestrian crossing over Gaffney Street between Ann and Wilna streets, a new raised crossing on Ann Street, a safer speed limit of 40 kilometres on Gaffney Street between Somerset and Heath streets, a safer 40-kilometre speed limit on Park Street between Stewart Street and Somerset Street, a safer traffic island and line markings near Pascoe Vale station to make the crossing easier for pedestrians and new shared bike lane markings and symbols to help vulnerable road users, along with many other initiatives to help make the place safer for Gaffney Street village shops, Pascoe Vale train station, Strathmore college and many others.