Tuesday, 7 February 2023

 Bev McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (14:06): (13) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. On 17 January three cars collided in Meredith at the corner of the Midland Highway and McLeod Street. A woman was killed in the accident. On that day the Ballarat Courier gave the story the following headline: ‘Crash at notorious corner closes Midland Highway’. Last year the Andrews government gave much hype to the roadworks it was doing on the Midland Highway, including installing 21 kilometres of wire rope barriers between Clarendon and Buninyong at a cost of $23 million. Yet just weeks after that work was finally completed, a life was lost further down the highway in an area publicly referred to as ‘notorious’. Minister, will you listen to locals, who know how bad Victoria’s country roads are and invest in making this notorious section of road at Meredith safer?