Constituency questions
Murray Plains electorate
Peter WALSH (Murray Plains) (14:37): (130) My constituency question today is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety: would the minister be able to advise one of my constituents as to what action is being taken to reduce the $1400 minimum threshold for people whose cars have been damaged by the government’s failure to do enough to fix our state’s roads and more recently our flood-affected roads in particular? My constituent reported to me that she has hit yet another monster pothole, costing her around $1000 for a new tyre and rim, for which she will be out of pocket for the whole cost. She saw the pothole coming, but with her daughter in the car she faced a head-on collision if she swerved into the oncoming lane or a wild uncontrolled crash through a fence and into a paddock if she dodged the pothole to the other side. She has asked me to find out what is being done to reduce that threshold so country people in particular are not out of pocket for hitting the monstrous potholes that this government has left in the roads.