Thursday, 1 August 2024

Constituency questions

Southern Metropolitan Region

Ryan BATCHELOR (Southern Metropolitan) (12:41): (989) My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Can the minister please detail how the Victorian government is continuing to keep roads safe in the Southern Metropolitan Region? Recently I was at the shops down at Black Rock, a suburb on the bay with a bustling little high street with lots of people around. Local residents were pleased to hear that the speed limit at these shops is going to be reduced to 40 kilometres an hour from 60 kilometres, on a stretch of Bluff Road from Stanley Street down Balcombe Road to Tandara Court, thanks to funding from the urban speed package, a project delivered jointly by the Victorian and Commonwealth governments. Research shows that the likelihood of fatality of pedestrians in a collision at 40 kilometres an hour is around 26 per cent, but that increases to more than 80 per cent when speeds are over 50 kilometres an hour. There have long been calls to put the safety of road users and pedestrians first in Black Rock, and that is exactly what this state Labor government is doing.