I READ with disgust The Courier article on Tuesday: 'Roadworks nearly finished'.
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It is poor judgment by Simon Ramsay to boast about a project that isn't finished and that has taken four years to not come to fruition.
As a university student, I have been frustrated each morning with the problems that compounded the old intersection at Whitehorse Road and the intersection with Olympic Avenue.
I am a commuter to university and have to factor the delay due to the ongoing roadwork into my schedule each day, which has become a huge inconvenience.
I know that the funding for the upgrade was provided in Labor's 2010 budget and I struggle to comprehend why it has taken the Liberal government so long to finish what was funded so long ago.
Residents and property owners have been stuffed around for four years. Now the Liberals are crowing about the success of the ongoing project, which is still hampering traffic flow to the university and for Buninyong residents.
There are few options for commuters in this busy corridor to avoid the heavily congested area, since Yankee Flat Road is in such a bad state of disrepair, no doubt contributed to by the Napthine government's cuts to regional road funding. It has become too much of a risk to travel that road every day.
If it was a tunnel in North Melbourne, the Liberals would be all over it. However, in the regions, important infrastructure like Main Road and Yankee Flat Road are something that can be forgotten or disregarded for four years or completely.
I'm sure that if it wasn't an election year, nothing would have been done at all.