Thursday, 20 March 2025

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:50): (1491) My constituency question relates to a matter of concern for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety. In particular I was approached by a constituent who managed to take a number of photographs, and I will not share those, not least because such things are not permissible in this chamber. Nonetheless he was very concerned. The constituent had crossed a part of the Maroondah Highway which is particularly busy. There is a whole stretch of Maroondah Highway, many stretches for that matter, that are particularly busy, but this is where Maroondah Highway meets Dublin Road. I am particularly interested to know from the minister for roads whether there have been any surveys in respect of pedestrian traffic and, in addition to that, whether there are any plans for a future pedestrian crossing across that particular part of the Maroondah Highway. It is not far from where Car City is. That will be well known to most Victorians. If you have lived, breathed or walked in Victoria, you must have heard of Car City in the district of Ringwood.