Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:58): My question is for the Minister for Roads. The new Colac-Ballarat Road roundabout in Colac East is a serious accident waiting to happen. Accidents so far have not resulted in death, but they are occurring regularly if not weekly. It has dodgy lights that do not work and a 100-kilometre-per-hour limit that causes vehicles to dangerously approach it at high speeds. The member for Polwarth wrote to the minister about the speed limit on this section of the road, and the minister told him that no changes to the speed limit were proposed at this time. Regional Roads Victoria claim that they set speed limits based on a balance of safety, mobility, the surrounding road environment and the site’s crash history. I ask the minister: how much crash data does the new Colac-Ballarat Road roundabout need to accumulate before the government considers lowering the speed limit?