Thursday, 30 May 2024

Eastern Victoria Region

Melina BATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:53): (908) My constituency matter is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and it relates to roadside maintenance or lack thereof at the Agar and Corinella roads intersection near Coronet Bay. This intersection unfortunately has a history of road crashes. Indeed the former Liberal and National coalition government in 2016 created some road improvements, raising the pavement and installing markers, signposts, guardrails et cetera. Recently the speed limit has dropped from 100 to 60 kilometres per hour, but the constituents’ issue is that there is a need for tea-tree roadside maintenance everywhere. So I ask the minister: will she please cut back all this tea-tree and make sure that there is clear vision to reduce that safety hazard for my constituency? Also, the Regional Roads Victoria maintenance budget has been cut and cut and cut. They are the meat in the sandwich. We need to make sure that people are safe when they drive through intersections.