Southern Metropolitan Region
Mr HAYES (Southern Metropolitan) (12:16): (1731) My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Residents of Bayside have been reporting issues to do with deteriorating, ageing and unsafe roads. High volumes of traffic and congestion have in part been caused by increased traffic due to COVID changing travel patterns, but more permanent changes have arisen from an ever-increasing amount of development, or overdevelopment, in my electorate. This has caused many local road capacities to be exceeded. The residents would like to know: when will local roads and safety upgrades be given priority for funding and action that correlate to the government’s push for more and more suburban development?