Northern Victoria Region
Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (12:49): (1407) My question is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. When will the government properly repair the stretch of Midland Highway at the intersection with Dhurringile Road? Late last year I was driving on the eastbound lane of the Midland Highway towards Shepparton and passed a line of cars all pulled over on the side of the road with flat tyres because they had hit a dangerous series of potholes just after the Dhurringile Road intersection, which is the main turn-off to Tatura. This section of road is notoriously bad and yet it does not appear on the list of roads to be resurfaced in the Victorian road maintenance program 2024–25. Some of the potholes have since been patched, but the patches are already breaking up and the road surface needs to be repaired properly. Doing half a job on a road like this is not acceptable. If the Allan Labor government can spend billions of dollars on projects like the Suburban Rail Loop, it can afford to properly repair the regional road network.