Tuesday, 18 November 2025

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (12:47): My question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it concerns the Wallan diamond Watson Street interchange in my electorate, and I am pleased to see it is progressing, finally, with contracts awarded for construction. This is after the federal government of course put it in their infrastructure review, which delayed the project by about a year and a half. But the question I want to ask the minister is: why have you cut the duplication of Watson Street from the Watson Street interchange in Wallan? Originally included in that was a duplication of Watson Street. Now the interchange will not include a duplication of Watson Street. My community are up in arms about this and the council are up in arms about this, so I think it is fair to ask the minister why she has cut the duplication of Watson Street from the scope of the project.