Tuesday, 5 May 2026

 Tim McCURDY (Ovens Valley) (19:21): (1647) My adjournment is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the action that I seek is an onsite meeting with VicRoads on the intersection of Cosgrove Road and the Katamatite-Shepparton Road in Invergordon. Currently there are give-way signs there on the Cosgrove Road when you want to either cross the main Shepparton road or turn onto that main Shepparton road. Local farmer Laurie Lawless has alerted me to this intersection, and I visited the site with him. We observed numerous vehicles barely slowing down to enter this crossroad, which is a 100-kilometre-an-hour road with many heavy vehicles, B-doubles, A-doubles and triples thundering along the Katamatite-Shepparton Road, as it is one of the main routes from Melbourne to Brisbane and sees an enormous traffic load. Put simply, the road signage needs to change from a give-way to a stop sign. This is a very unforgiving site to have an accident, with very, very fast and heavy vehicles mixing with local traffic. I urge the minister to have the north-east VicRoads team meet onsite with me and local farmer Laurie Lawless to discuss the best way forward to make this a safer intersection for all but especially for the local traffic.