Hansard debates

Mrs McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (12:49): My question is for the Minister for Transport Infrastructure, and it relates to the much-needed and long-awaited Bellarine link project. Minister, this is an essential infrastructure project, and I urge you to support it. Connecting Portarlington highway and the Bellarine Highway to the Geelong Ring Road would remove heavy traffic from the city, ease congestion in the CBD, add resilience and capacity to the local road network and bring substantial economic and quality-of-life benefits to Geelong. This is investment in enabling infrastructure, which would improve lives and permanently enhance the productivity of the Geelong economy. Four million dollars was allocated for planning in the 2016–17 budget, but it seems to me the government has done little since to drive the project forward. The information I seek, Minister, is a time line—preferably a short one—for the next step towards construction.