Western Metropolitan Region
Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) (12:39): (1642) My constituency question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Derrimut Road is a main road that now runs through one of the fastest growing areas in Australia. It also links rapidly growing areas in the Melton municipality with greater Werribee. Traffic on this road is horrendous at the best of times. At peak hour traffic indeed is intolerable. Once a quiet country road, Derrimut Road is now a main thoroughfare. The problem is the majority of this road is in its original state, untouched by human hands, as it were, but travelled on by many thousands of vehicles every day. If the Andrews government allows unbridled development with the tax grab that it brings, it is only fair that those taxes be returned in improved infrastructure. Minister, when will the government duplicate the entire length of Derrimut Road?