Thursday, 18 August 2022

Western Metropolitan Region

Mr FINN (Western Metropolitan) (12:37): (1925) My constituency question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. I was speaking this morning to a constituent in Point Cook, and she, like all of us, is astounded by the extraordinary blowout in the cost of the Suburban Rail Loop. She was particularly angry because, as she put it, ‘The Andrews government is prepared to throw away hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars’ on a railway line that she could not care less about but will not spend a cent to fix the daily debacle Point Cook residents have to put up with just to get from their homes onto the Princes Freeway. Point Cook Road is a disaster, but having to travel through the centre of Laverton just to get onto the freeway is far worse. Minister, what are you doing to ease the pain felt by motorists in Point Cook daily making their way to work?