Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Wellington Road, Rowville

Kim WELLS (Rowville) (09:53): The recent fatality on Wellington Road in Rowville tells us that this is a dangerous road in desperate need of upgrades. In my regular surveys that I send to Rowville and Lysterfield residents, the condition of roads comes in at number one over and over again. Funding for Wellington Road since 2014 – so that is for the last 10 years – has been just $3.21 million for the Rowville section, and sadly, only $1.78 million of that funding has actually been spent. The previous federal Liberal MP Alan Tudge had secured $110 million for a Wellington Road upgrade, but in the first Albanese government budget this funding was axed.

To fix Wellington Road we need at least five issues to be addressed immediately: we need the speed to be cut from 80 to 60 kilometres an hour outside Wellington Village, we need a speed red-light camera installed at the intersection outside Wellington Village with proper signage warning motorists of the camera, we need better police patrols along Wellington Road, we need a long-awaited upgrade to Wellington Road and we need the trucks from the local quarry to stay in the left lane. We need action on this road as the highest priority possible. I pass on my condolence to the Naidu family.