Tuesday, 12 May 2026

 Evan MULHOLLAND (Northern Metropolitan) (13:07): (2313) My constituency question is to the Minister for Public and Active Transport, and it concerns the lack of accessible tram stops on Sydney Road in Brunswick and Coburg, which I have asked about before. According to the 30-year strategy report by Infrastructure Victoria released in November last year, at the current rate it will take Victoria 166 years to make all tram stops accessible. What is the justification for ignoring the Disability Standards for Accessible Transport 2002, which required all tram stops to be accessible by December 2022? I note on the weekend the government announced planning would be undertaken for this important work. I note my constituents have seen this before. We all remember the Upfield line duplication planning study in 2017 – the same one they will not release the documents for – and they have just announced another one in this budget. I am guessing we will not see that either. So I ask the minister: when will you commit to actually getting on and building them?