Western Metropolitan Region
Moira DEEMING (Western Metropolitan) (12:41): (1511) My question is to the Minister for Transport Infrastructure. Why are the western suburbs always taken for granted and put last in line for public transport investment? In the west we have been crying out for trains, buses and roads. Instead this government approved a third runway flight path right over the top of us, which will ruin our quality of life and the value of our homes by blanketing us with debilitating noise and the dregs of jet fuel. We do not want planes in the middle of our suburbs, we want trains. But the Melbourne airport rail link has been delayed again until 2033, and the promised electrification of the Melton line, first in 2018 and then a couple more times after that, was never delivered until finally they admitted it was only ever an evolving commitment, not a promise. Now we learn that the Suburban Rail Loop West was never even slated to reach the west until the 2060s – that is over 40 years away. We want trains and lanes, not broken promises and planes.