Thursday, 20 November 2025

 Matthew GUY (Bulleen) (17:16): (1441) My adjournment matter tonight is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and it has to do with the speed limit along Porter Street, from the Newmans Road shops to Fitzsimons Lane roundabout, in Templestowe. I raised a roads matter last sitting week in relation to around a kilometre away, a block up, in Templestowe. This one is, as I said, around the Porter Street area. Now, there have been some significant roadworks along the Fitzsimons Lane roundabout intersection from Porter Street–Williamsons Road up towards the Templestowe shops, but going from Templestowe intersection up to Warrandyte along Porter Street, where it gets to Newmans Road, is currently 70 kilometres an hour. That section of the road has not been upgraded. It is near St Haralambos Greek Orthodox Church on Church Road. As it goes off, you have Templestowe Park Primary School, some smaller residential streets with low-density residential blocks up Tuscany Rise and other streets which come off Niland Rise, which come off this part of Porter Street.

A number of residents who live close to this area and walk their children along the footpaths – the unmade footpaths along this part of Porter Street – are concerned about some of the cars coming from Warrandyte down toward the Fitzsimons Lane roundabout, which was upgraded by the state government as part of the broader North East Link works. The cars there do exceed the speed limit. I live near that area. I know it firsthand, and some of the concerns raised by residents are quite valid. There are a number of instances where, as the road kinks and the bus pulls into an unmade side of the road to collect people – that is the 905 from the Pines to the city – cars have swerved, and because they are exceeding the speed limit and there are no speed dampening measures, it has been particularly dangerous for kids coming to school or people coming to avail themselves of the three bus stops that exist between Newmans Road and Fitzsimons Lane roundabout. So tonight I ask the minister for roads – and it is a jointly managed road between VicRoads and the Manningham City Council – to intervene, to put in place some speed-dampening measures and to review the speed limit on this section from 70 kilometres an hour to 60 kilometres an hour, which would fit the first part of the road from the Fitzsimons Lane roundabout to Templestowe park, which is 60 kilometres an hour and then gathers up to 70 kilometres an hour as it goes around the corner. I ask the minister to please intervene in this matter.