Thursday, 6 March 2025

 Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (12:47): (1445) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and my constituents ask when the rutting on the off-ramp from the Hume Freeway to the Goulburn Vally Highway at Seymour will be fixed – another week, another road that needs major repair. The off-ramp from the Hume Freeway onto the Goulburn Vally Highway at Seymour has been a source of concern for my constituents for a very long time. The deep rutting on the bend of the exit is quite honestly dangerous, especially for trucks, who use this exit frequently. As a highly used off-ramp to a major highway, used thousands of times a day by trucks, cars, buses and motorcycles, it beggars belief that the damaged road surface has been ignored for so long. If it were a metropolitan off-ramp, it would have been fixed in weeks, if not days, but because it is a regional off-ramp, it seems to my constituents that its repair is not important to this city-centric government. So the question my constituents ask the minister is: when will the rutting on the off-ramp from the Hume Freeway to the Goulburn Vally Highway at Seymour be fixed?