North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:59): (335) My question today is to the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, and it relates to prioritisation decisions made regarding level crossing removal projects. I have been contacted by community members around the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert area who are concerned that the decisions regarding the prioritised removal of their local level crossings were made based on political advantage rather than greatest need. In 2017 the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office found that the first tranche of level crossing removals included sites that were not among the 50 most dangerous and congested, so my question is: can you please provide the data analysis or rationale to show that the current level crossing removal projects in my region were the ones that had the greatest safety and congestion issues to justify this prioritisation?