Wednesday, 4 October 2023

 Anthony CIANFLONE (Pascoe Vale) (14:40): (335) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. Minister, what is the Department of Transport and Planning doing to improve road safety through the Nicholson Street corridor in East Coburg? With more young families and elderly residents living in East Coburg, improving road safety along Nicholson Street will continue to be a high priority. As a heavily utilised north–south arterial, Nicholson Street experiences a variety of competing demands, including around 20,000 road movements per day and people catching the route 1 tram line, as well as locals living along the corridor who have mobility needs or who walk or cycle to work, to the shops and to school. That is why in June 2022 the Victorian government announced the introduction of safer speed limits to better protect all road users. Following community feedback the speed limit was lowered between Bell Street and Albion Street from 60 kilometres to 50 kilometres to help calm traffic in the area, and a time-based 40-kilometre speed limit operating from 7 am to midnight was also extended north of Albion Street to Moore Street. But there are a lot more opportunities to improve safety along the corridor, including through the installation of better road safety signage, speed cameras and more accessible and safer tram commuting experiences for all.