Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Southern Metropolitan Region

Ms CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (12:09): (1724) I have had an email from a constituent of mine in Albert Park who lives on Kerferd Road, and Spiros has been very concerned about the new proposed bike lanes that are going through Albert Park where he lives. This question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure in relation to his concerns. VicRoads put out a notice the other day saying:

We’re proposing to install up to 40 kms of new and improved pop-up bike routes in your area …

and Spiros has said to me that he is concerned about Kerferd Road being a very busy thoroughfare. People come down Kerferd Road and they turn left into Beaconsfield Parade to go to the eastern suburbs, and he is very concerned about the dangers that this might pose for those people, the cyclists, but also for motorists coming out of their driveways and for the residents. So the question he would like answered from the minister is: what considerations have been given to the changes of having a bike path along this major and busy thoroughfare, and will he respond to Spiros’s concerns?