Tuesday, 24 May 2022


Constituency questions

Eastern Metropolitan Region


Eastern Metropolitan Region

Dr BACH (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:19): (1784) My constituency question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. Everybody who lives in Surrey Hills, as I do, knows that the best place to go for coffee is to the Steam Coffee Company. However, twice now over the course of the last few weeks the Minister for Transport Infrastructure and her Level Crossing Removal Project have placed significant materials related to their botched level crossing removal directly in front of the door. This has led to a 70 per cent reduction in custom because everybody who walks through Union Road simply thinks that Steam must be shut. Steam has met with officials from the LXRP. However, they have not got a good hearing. They need to know that, firstly, this will not happen again. There is no need to dump significant equipment directly in front of the door of this treasured local cafe. If there is to be any further disruption to Steam, then the minister simply must do the right thing and actually let them know in advance.