North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:48): (1296) My constituency question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. This time of year is not only a concern obviously on the roads for motorists in respect to the fire season but it is also a concern for motorists at any time of the year in terms of visibility. What I ask the minister to do specifically is actually provide the constituents of my electorate of Ringwood with the maintenance schedule for kerbside maintenance. This might seem like a trivial matter but in fact it is not. It first came to my attention through a local primary school where parents had actually had some difficulty crossing a major intersection where you had four lanes of oncoming traffic. The parents who were taking their children to school simply could not see the oncoming traffic for the tall grass. It is a serious issue. We are in the year 2024, and I would like to think that any government in fact could run a maintenance schedule, make that transparent and public but also enable local citizens to be able to lodge complaints and lodge work orders to ensure that their local kerbsides are safe and that we take seriously in every respect – particularly at this time of year at Christmas – road safety, pedestrians and traffic.