Murray Plains electorate
Peter WALSH (Murray Plains) (14:44): (1272) My question is to the Minister for Education on behalf of a constituent who asked me why his child and neighbouring children are being denied safe access to a school bus to get them to and from Kerang each day. These children have to cross a 100-kilometre-an-hour-rated busy section of the Murray Valley Highway every day to catch the school bus, which is dangerous for young primary school students. My constituent has asked the Kerang Technical High School, which is the bus coordinator in the area, to submit a form 9 to have the bus route returned to its original route on Flood Lane at Reedy Lake, which would shorten the bus route by 3.5 k and eliminate the necessity for these young children to cross a busy highway, but has had no response. I have personally visited the site and can see the common sense in the proposal. I cannot understand why this issue cannot be resolved so these children have safe access to bus travel to attend school in Kerang.