Northern Victoria Region
Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (13:06): (1725) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Minister, will you order immediate repairs to the dangerous potholes on Donnybrook Road? Donnybrook Road is currently a single-lane road that suffers chronic congestion every single day, and the Labor government has no plan to fix the traffic problem by duplicating the road. Heavy vehicles on the old country track have also damaged the road surface significantly, and constituents have reported that there are large and growing potholes on Donnybrook Road towards the Merriang Road end. Temporary patches quickly disintegrate, and my constituents note that cars frequently cross to the other side of the road to avoid the massive holes in the road surface. Those potholes are damaging cars and could easily lead to collisions and injuries. The minister must order the Department of Transport and Planning to urgently rehabilitate the potholed road surface in the short term and completely duplicate and renew the road pavement as soon as possible.