Tuesday, 2 May 2023

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Matthew BACH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:17): (124) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety in the other place. Mont Albert Primary School is a fabulous local primary school just down the road from me in our electorate. It has got about 550 kids, achieves fabulous results in terms of student wellbeing and does really well as well. One of my constituents, called Jillian, recently contacted me to raise with me the matter of the danger some of these kids face as they come to school, especially crossing Union Road and especially crossing Union Road from the west. The point she made to me was this: there is no pedestrian crossing between Whitehorse and Belmore roads. As a result, you often see schoolchildren and others crossing the road between Yarrbat Avenue and Threadneedle Street. That is the particular point that she has asked about. The question that I would put to the minister for road safety is: will she work with VicRoads to investigate possible measures to improve safety on this stretch of road for my young constituents?