Western Victoria Region
Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:46): (1913) My question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and it concerns VicRoads’ new 60-kilometre-an-hour speed restriction on Darlington Road, which is in the Corangamite shire in Western Victoria Region. For 10 kilometres from Darcys Lane to Darlington the speed limit has been cut from 100 kilometres an hour to 60 kilometres an hour, and the cut is indefinite. Despite the crater-like potholes, VicRoads have confirmed to the Corangamite shire they have no plans to fix the road. School buses use the road twice a day and face longer journeys. CFA emergency response times will increase by 8 minutes travelling to and from the shed, and trucks are now choosing to avoid the route and instead hammering the secondary roads shire ratepayers pay to maintain. Minister, when will you recognise that cutting speed limits instead of fixing roads is an insult to regional Victorians, who pay extortionate taxes and car registrations but get so little in return?