Thursday, 4 August 2022

Eastern Metropolitan Region

Dr BACH (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:47): (1893) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. Members of the house will be shocked to learn that the Hurstbridge train line duplication is well over budget and heavily delayed. However, more recent and new worrying information has come to my attention from the Liberal candidate for Eltham, Mr Jason McClintock. I have been informed that the footings for the bridge over the Plenty River that were laid only some time ago have had to be ripped up, re-engineered and redone and that this has caused the contingency budget to be significantly depleted. I have also been advised that the focus has been moved to the Greensborough station build in the lead-up to the election—the government’s focus—ignoring the necessary changes at Montmorency station. Why is the government not providing an integrated bus and train station at Greensborough as originally planned?