Thursday, 18 May 2023

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Matthew BACH (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:53): (190) I have got a constituency question today for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Will the minister come with me to Blackburn to meet with the Whitehorse Active Transport Action Group in order to discuss safer pedestrian crossing access at Blackburn Road. President, as you would be aware, a section of Blackburn Road is a state highway in our electorate. It is 1.4 kilometres long and it does not have any safe crossings. That part of our electorate is home to many young families and it houses many schools, so members of the Whitehorse Active Transport Action Group, who my team and I have recently been engaging with, are of the view – as am I – that something needs to be done about it. Here is an un-fun fact for you: no other state highway across the eastern corridor has such an extended distance between safe crossing points. I would urge Minister Horne to look in the upcoming budget at providing funding to allow this to occur. First things first though, I would love her to come to Blackburn to meet with me and the group.