General News
7 September, 2023
“When will you fix the road?”
MEMBER for Western Victoria Bev McArthur is calling for the Minister of Roads to confirm when regional Victorian roads will be repaired.
MEMBER for Western Victoria Bev McArthur is calling for the Minister of Roads to confirm when regional Victorian roads will be repaired.
Through a Legislative Council constituency question Ms McArthur highlighted the Camperdown-Darl-ington Road as an example of roads that require repair.
A portion of the road, beginning at the end of the single-lane section from Darlington, has been reduced to 80 kilometres an hour.
The speed reduction finishes at the Bookaar CFA station.
Ms McArthur said the road cannot be called a road, referring to it as a “track”.
“Last month, an 80-kilometre-per-hour restriction was placed on the road,” she said.
“Instead of it being fixed or even built properly in the first place, we just put up an 80-kilometre-per-hour restriction sign.
“As Cr Nick Cole says, it is in response to all the Grand Canyons that we now call ‘potholes’.
“And it is not just one short stretch of a Grand Canyon; the speed limit has now been extended for more than 12 kilometres. It is a Grand Canyon of 12 kilometres.”
Ms McArthur said tyres had been “torn apart”, and cars damaged.
“But worse still, multiple drivers and riders have left the road on one corner near the Bookaar fire shed, and tragically, one man hit two trees and was airlifted to Melbourne in a critical state,” she said.
“So, Minister, when will you fix the road and all other roads like it in regional Victoria?”