Tuesday, 2 December 2025

 Ellen SANDELL (Melbourne) (14:49): My question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. The West Gate toll road is about to open and funnel thousands more cars onto the streets of North and West Melbourne. Seven years ago, to try to reduce opposition to this private toll road project, the state government promised $100 million in traffic calming projects to be delivered in North and West Melbourne before the toll road opened, but seven years later, only $11 million of that promised $100 million has been spent.

A further $55 million worth of projects is still up in the air, and now the government says the remaining $34 million might not even be spent at all. This is a broken promise to the people of north and west Melbourne. They feel they have been sold a lie by this Labor state government. They were promised safer streets as compensation for having thousands more cars dumped onto their local roads, but the promises have all but vanished. Minister, can you confirm if the full $100 million that was promised will actually ever be delivered and by when?