Wednesday, 21 September 2022

 Dr CUMMING (Western Metropolitan) (12:57): (1994) My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety in the other place, and it is from Mitchell in West Footscray. Can the current inner-west truck ban and curfews be extended to Roberts Street in West Footscray to improve safety? A large number of trucks are using the residential part of Roberts Street as a rat run between Sunshine Road and Geelong Road. This street has bike lanes that are just not safe when these trucks are running down and parking across them. There is already an alternative route that trucks can use to get between Sunshine Road and Geelong Road that avoids residential areas by using Geelong Street in front of Bunnings, but trucks are choosing to bypass this route and drive through residential streets. This has been an issue in Melbourne’s inner west for a long time, and sadly today there have been reports of a death in Deer Park of a gentleman who was changing his tyre on the side of the road. God bless everyone, and let us hope that people are driving safely between now and Christmas.