Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Northern Victoria Region

Rikkie-Lee TYRRELL (Northern Victoria) (12:56): (798) My question today is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety in the other place. A resident of Benalla, Darren, has reached out regarding the extremely dangerous conditions of roads in the area. On the Benalla-Tocumwal Road, drivers are finding their vehicles pulled to the centre of the road by dangerous rutting and crumbling of the road. The Midland Highway, south of Benalla, has been patched and re-patched and patched again, but it is still crumbling. The conditions of the roads in Northern Victoria are dangerous. The minister keeps telling my constituents that there are works being done on our roads, but you would not know it by driving on them. There are Third World countries with better roads than the ones my constituents have to drive on. My constituents want to ask if the minister will commit to fixing roads in regional Victoria to a safe standard.