The Hume Freeway will be among the key routes included in the State Government’s new $964 million road maintenance initiative.
Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne launched the road maintenance blitz earlier this month, rolling out a major road initiative to rebuild, repair, and resurface roads across Victoria.
Over the next nine months, crews will complete thousands of road projects across Victoria, ranging from road rehabilitation, resurfacing, patching potholes and maintaining bridges, traffic lights, signage, and road infrastructure.
The blitz will see an army of road workers delivering the equivalent of $2.6 million worth of works, with around 70 per cent of funding going towards regional Victoria.
In Macedon, the maintenance efforts will focus on several roads including, Gisborne-Kilmore Road, Kilmore-Lancefield Road, Heathcote-Kyneton Road, and Tylden-Woodend Road.
Targeting the state’s busiest travel and trade routes, works are also set to be delivered on the Goulburn Valley Highway, Princes Highway, Surf Coast Highway, and the Western Highway.
The package also includes flood recovery works, with priority given to repairing regional Victoria’s flood-damaged roads.
The final list of flood recovery projects will be confirmed in the coming months.
Extended periods of warmer, drier weather are crucial for undertaking significant projects such as road rebuilding and rehabilitation, as most of the work is planned between now and May next year.
Member for Macedon Mary-Anne Thomas said the road maintenance blitz was helping people on roads.
“We’re getting on with fixing the roads that country people drive on every day,” she said.
Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne said the initiative was connecting communities.
“We’re investing nearly a billion dollars to rebuild and repair the roads that Victorians depend on every single day — from the highways connecting our major centres to the local roads that keep our communities moving,” she said.
Really!!??
So they put enough money out there to resurface 1% of our highways. Do the math people. This means that our highways get a reseal once every 100 years. Should be a maximum time lapse of 7 years.
And the politicians wonder why the road system is decaying.
By the way, not maintaining the table drains and not removing encroaching trees means water running down the roads instead of down the drains. This damages the sealed road edges and leads to the roads crumbling. Maintenance is the key.
Remember folks. No votes for this government in the country so no money to be spent.
Apparently 25% of this state’s population don’t matter
We pay exorbitant fee’s for our vehicles and licences and I always thought that money was being used to maintain our roads and road infrastructure…..oh thats right, a politician said that!
Where is the money coming from?
What services are to be cut?
Good, start with the signs on the new Koo-wee-rup packenham Rd that have the same road number ” m420 ” as the South Gippsland hwy it should read as M422 ps use a sticker as it won’t cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix the stuff up
Maybe if we bring in a couple of million more people in to the state the roads, schools and hospitals will all get better…oh yeah.
Thank goodness….way overdue. Only place the Hume Highway is reasonable is in the vicinity of Canberra…I wonder why?
2.6 million allocated for Victoria. That should repair about 1% of Victoria’s road problems. If there wasn’t an election looming both state and federal, Australian roads would be getting nothing.
Marvellous.
They’ve done absolutely nothing to maintain our roads for how many years now?
And suddenly, they’re going to spend around a Billion dollars to do what should have been occurring all along.
Why now?
A cynic might say “Oh… that’s right – there’s an election coming up.”
Lucky I’m not a cynic, hey?
So…where’s all this money going to magically appear from? We’re already broke. Tens of Billions in the Red. What are they going to use? Monopoly money??
Where is the money coming from?
What services are to be reduced?
Well it stopped at warragull.after that the road keeps deteriorating. East Gippsland is very ooirly serviced but then there are no votes in it for the current givernment.
Victorian taxpayers pay for road maintenance through vehicle registrations. Since 2020 & the weather impacts of heavy rain & flooding in regional areas, as well as Metropolitan high traffic impact, we’ve seen the Andrews/Allan State government neglect maintenance. This has impacted safety for all road users & some individuals have sustained damage to their vehicles with no recourse for compensation. The Victorian State government is a failure, they’re hitting our pockets to cover their fiscal mismanagement & yet they fail to deliver the basic services that they’re responsible for & deny responsibility or fair recompense. Vote them out
100% agree, ‘Victoria, the underivable state’
Andrews could play a never ending golf game on the Victorian Highway system. A two million hole course.
Agree , whoever votes them in next can pay the state taxes off as we all relocate