Main Neerim Road, Rokeby
Wayne FARNHAM (Narracan) (19:16): (599) My adjournment this evening is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and the action I seek is that urgent action be taken to address the serious issue on Main Neerim Road just outside of Rokeby. This section of road is actually very, very dangerous, and because of the lack of investment in Victorian roads this road is now becoming critically in need of being fixed. I met with Brian Barwick, the CFA captain from Neerim South, and we walked down this stretch of road and he said to me that when they get an emergency call-out on this section of road, the CFA know exactly where to go. The problem is because of the lack of investment the road is old and it is very, very slippery. If you can imagine some S-bends, cars come around these S-bends, water is shedding across the road, they spin out and they keep hitting this bank. It was expressed to me by Brian that the problem he has and the fear he has is that, because of this rural area, we have the big trucks coming down carting gravel – well, they used to cart logs, but that has sort of backed off a bit. But there are a lot of gravel trucks coming around that corner, and he is extremely concerned that there is going to be a fatality there with a truck slamming into these cars. People who live out there have lived there a long time and know the road, and they are spinning out on a road they know. So I am asking the minister to address this problem. The road needs to be resurfaced before a fatality happens.