Western Victoria Region
Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:38): (393) My question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety and concerns the Darlington track. We cannot call it a road. It is in my electorate. It is just a track. Last month an 80-kilometre-per-hour restriction was placed on the road. Instead of it being fixed or even built properly in the first place, we just put up an 80-kilometre-per-hour restriction sign. As Cr Nick Cole says, it is in response to all the Grand Canyons that we now call ‘potholes’. And it is not just one short stretch of a Grand Canyon; the speed limit has now been extended for more than 12 kilometres. It is a Grand Canyon of 12 kilometres. Tyres have been torn apart and cars damaged. But worse still, multiple drivers and riders have left the road on one corner near the Bookaar fire shed, and tragically, one man hit two trees and was airlifted to Melbourne in a critical state. So Minister, when will you fix the road and all other roads like it in regional Victoria?