Thursday, 9 February 2023

 David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:55): (23) I want to raise another matter for the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure today, and it concerns the crossings, again, at Mont Albert and Surrey Hills. The government of course lied to the people of Victoria before the 2018 election, promising that there would be two stations with the crossings, and now there is to be only one station. Local businesses have suffered tremendously through this process, but in the last few days there has been another botched approach by the Level Crossing Removal Project. They were handing out vouchers for a local business for local coffees, but they had not cleared this with the business in question – that is the Steam business, a local business. It seems just absurd, and I ask the minister: will she investigate this cock-up, I am going to call it, by the LXRP and yet again their inability to undertake basic processes? The sufferers are local communities and local businesses.

Sitting suspended 12:56 pm until 2:03 pm.