Constituency questions
Western Metropolitan Region
Moira DEEMING (Western Metropolitan) (12:44): (81) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. When will the government upgrade the Palmers Road corridor, which involves three stretches of roads – Robinsons Road, Westwood Drive and Calder Park Drive – which connect the Calder Freeway to the Western Highway? Over 20,000 vehicles use this corridor every day. As the surrounding suburbs grow, the volume and intensity of traffic is becoming overwhelming. In the five years before COVID there were 85 traffic incidents and 80 people were injured. My constituents are desperate for the duplication of the roads along this corridor. Melton City Council has written to the minister requesting a formal upgrade of Westwood Drive and for the corridor to be made into a state arterial road. An independent analysis shows that this upgrade will deliver $300 million of benefit to the area in the next three decades.