Tuesday, 29 July 2025

 Michael GALEA (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (18:38): (1753) My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Public and Active Transport, and it concerns the recent completion of the Beaconsfield level crossing removal, taking away this major bottleneck which had the potential to cause many significant issues for the area as the areas to the south continue to grow, with continued residential development going on in the Berwick and Beaconsfield areas. It was great to be at the ‘thank you to the community’ event just a few weeks ago with the level crossing project team to acknowledge and thank the hardworking people that brought this project into life, with the new McKenna Drive appropriately named after one of the founders and influential people at St Francis Xavier College as well. Indeed it was even good to see the Leader of the Opposition there doing a press conference. He did not have any nice things to say about the project, which is a shame because we know that the Liberal Party continue to run down the investments in transport infrastructure, in schools and in improving transport services that are so important, especially for our growing outer suburbs. The action that I seek is an update on the completion of this very important project.