Tuesday, 17 June 2025

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:11): (1637) My constituency question today is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. Residents in Gillingham Street, Watsonia North, have contacted me regarding the current works on the M80 ring-road interchange, just adjacent to their homes and the Gillingham Street playground. They are concerned that once these works are completed, they will be impacted by significant traffic noise, particularly given that the westbound ramp will be visible from their driveways. Given the large volume of car traffic on this road, they are concerned about noise pollution that will impact their health and wellbeing. Residents are reasonably requesting that a higher noise wall be constructed along an approximately 200-metre section close to Gillingham Street to block the line of sight of and noise coming from this ramp. It is my understanding that there are other parts of this road project where a 9-metre noise wall has been built, and I request that a similar and sufficiently high wall is built at Gillingham Street. Minister, will you commit to making sure that this boundary noise wall is high enough to block the noise and disturbance from the ramp on the M80 for residents of Gillingham Street?