Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Northern Metropolitan Region

Mr ONDARCHIE (Northern Metropolitan) (12:37): (1741) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Kalkallo residents living in new estates in my electorate of Northern Metropolitan Region are concerned about the traffic and congestion and the need for a second exit out of the new estates, particularly Cloverton. I have raised this traffic issue in Kalkallo many times in this house and have got little response. You can imagine the frustration of the residents. Vix from Kalkallo wrote to me and said:

… residents of kalkallo are facing a big issue of traffic in the morning during school run nad while going to work, because of just 1 exit in the estate, people are stuck in the traffic and it take more than an hour to get …

to work. I spoke to Ally yesterday about the Cloverton estate, who is just as frustrated. Widening the Hume Highway is not enough to get the queue of people out of the estates. My question for the minister is: will the government commit to a second entrance or exit in the upcoming state budget so my Kalkallo residents living in these new estates can spend less time in traffic and more time with their families?