Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Dalton and Epping roads, Epping

Mr ONDARCHIE (Northern Metropolitan) (17:47): (1876) My adjournment matter this afternoon is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. I have tried this before with the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, but like a good AFLW player she handballed it straight to the minister for roads and did not want to go near it. The residents do not like the raised intersectional speed humps on Dalton Road and Epping Road, and as I indicated I have asked the minister for infrastructure about this before, but she said, ‘Not for me; give it to the minister for roads’, so maybe she was embarrassed because she built those things in the first place, those speed humps.

Mrs McArthur: She needs to do a survey.

Mr ONDARCHIE: She should do a survey of that local area, because I have, and I have to tell you I remember witnessing a large volume of crushed rock that had come out near one of the Dalton Road intersections. It had probably come off a truck as that truck went about its business and hit those speed humps. I also witnessed at the time a truck with scaffolding hit the speed humps and the load on the truck jumped all over the place. I was very lucky it did not come off the truck, and I thank God it did not come off and hit a car that was travelling behind it.

The minister in response to a similar question regarding raised intersectional speed humps in this place said, ‘As always, these decisions are made on the very best safety advice from our expert teams’. But she has never given me that safety advice. I wonder if it really exists. So, minister for roads, the action I seek from you today is for the government to respect the wishes of the community and in the upcoming budget get rid of those raised intersectional speed humps on Epping and Dalton roads and investigate other safety measures that could save lives.