Thursday, 14 November 2019

 Mr ONDARCHIE (Northern Metropolitan) (18:11): My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Roads. It concerns Plenty Road, Bundoora—actually, Plenty Road right in front of the member for Bundoora’s office. I hope he is aware of the dire situation outside his office in Bundoora. Plenty Road, Bundoora, was recently listed by the AAMI crash index as the most common street in Australia for accidents. Anna Cartwright from AAMI said:

When you combine this with heavy traffic and frequent stopping, it is a perfect recipe for vehicle collisions.

She also said:

Plenty Road in Bundoora has several lanes of traffic in both directions and feeds into many other major roads in Melbourne.

As the population of Melbourne’s north grows this will only get more and more difficult to navigate. The action I seek from the minister in order to accommodate our increasing population and subsequent increased volume of traffic is a solution to Plenty Road in Bundoora, because the present situation is intolerable. I ask the minister by way of action to direct VicRoads to investigate the light sequencing at the intersections of Settlement Road and Plenty Road, Grimshaw Street and Plenty Road, and McLeans Road and Plenty Road to increase the traffic flow and to provide a much safer passage for our road users.