Letters

Updated September 11 2017 - 11:35am, first published 10:30am

lifeblood of the country

Since coming to office, the Andrews Labor Government has doubled spending on road maintenance country roads making them safer and stronger. Over the next 12 months VicRoads will be doing more pavement work than it has done in decades, part of our $530 million investment to improve regional roads. In this financial year alone, VicRoads will fix more than 1,400 km of roads across the state. And we’re not just filling pot holes; we’re rebuilding entire sections of some of our most critical links. We're investing $58 million in resurfacing, asphalting, sealing and shoulder repair at more than 100 locations in Western Victoria including sections of the Glenelg Highway between Skipton and Glenthompson, Daylesford - Malmsbury Road at Malmsbury, the Pyrenees Highway, and the Bacchus Marsh-Gisborne Road.  We’re also building the infrastructure that saves lives on rural roads; 1,700 km of wire rope barriers, upgrading road shoulders and widening centre lines on the states most dangerous country roads.

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