Eastern Victoria Region
Renee HEATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:48): (346) My question is for the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. Earlier this year my constituent reached out to the member for Bass about the need for a replacement bus shelter in Pioneer Bay. In April she received a response confirming that the member had made a request to the Department of Transport and Planning for the replacement and it had been approved. She said that usually it is about two months from submission to construction. However, there has been no sign of works taking place, despite it being well beyond the time frame. Pioneer Bay is a gorgeous town located on the Bass Coast, and like many communities in the Eastern Victoria Region, public transport infrastructure is either non-existent or in desperate need of upgrade. The urgency for the community was emphasised recently when a 70-year-old woman passed out waiting for the bus because there was nowhere to sit and she had no shelter. So my question is: when will it be built?