Thursday, 29 May 2025

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:53): (1613) My question today is to the Minister for Public and Active Transport. Heide Museum of Modern Art is a wonderful place to visit in my region. I attend regularly. The art is spectacular, and the nearby parklands are a beautiful place to explore or to picnic. However, right now for residents from the Heidelberg area to access the museum by foot, they are not able to saunter across the parkland to the museum; they instead have to go a long way around, which includes walking along the narrow footpath right beside the busy six-lane Manningham Road West. For people walking with small children or with pets, this is very close to the road, without any barrier. It has been raised with me by residents that it would be much quicker, safer and frankly more pleasant to walk from Heidelberg to Heide through the parklands, and this would require the building of a bridge over the river to connect the community to the museum. Will you consider this proposal and improve pedestrian access to the museum of modern art?