Constituency Question - Glen Huntly Road, Elwood, Crossing

CONSTITUENCY QUESTION

‘GLEN HUNTLY ROAD, ELWOOD, CROSSING’.

Thursday, 30 October 2025.

Mr NEWBURY (Brighton) (14:49):

My constituency question is to the Premier.

I ask: when will the State Labor Government stop pocketing Federal funding delivered for a proper pedestrian crossing upgrade at Glen Huntly Road in Elwood and deliver the project?

In 2022 the Federal Government provided 50 per cent of the costs required to build a proper crossing over Glen Huntly Road near Elster Creek.

The community has been calling for a crossing for years because the site is dangerous.

Initially the Department bizarrely proposed to build a crossing 200 metres away from where it was needed. It was just in the wrong spot.

For two years the Government has blamed the local school for a delay in the crossing being built.

Well, I can reveal the truth.

The Government has been trying to force the local school to sign off on a cheap sign instead of delivering a pedestrian-operated crossing, as promised.

Rightly, the school refused to budge.

I have raised that the State is brooding on the funding with the Federal Treasurer.

Premier, stop being a cheapskate. When are we getting the crossing?