Regional Roads Funding

Victorian regional roads funding cut by 95%.

In April, former Treasury economist Stephen Anthony summed up the Victorian government’s management of the state as follows:

“Victoria is on a suicide mission to record borrowing, just as global interest rates are about to hit 5%”.

“Potholes can’t get filled, emergency departments can’t afford clean linen, primary schools can’t fix heaters”.

“Things are about to get very ugly”.

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Anthony’s statement that “potholes can’t get filled” was not hyperbole. According to the Herald-Sun, Victoria has reduced regional road repairs by 95% to save money.

The latest Victorian Department of Transport and Planning annual report reveals that just 422,000 square metres of regional roads were rehabilitated or resurfaced in 2023-24, down from nine million metres a year earlier. That amounted to a 95% decrease.

“It means maintenance works were completed on road areas the size of 21 MCGs last year, compared to 450 MCGs the year prior”, noted reporter Shannon Deery.

The report also shows that only 39% of metropolitan projects and 69% of regional projects are being finished on time.

The government cut its spending on road resurfacing from $201.4 million in the previous year to just $37.6 million.

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this is from https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/11/victoria-is-as-broken-as-its-crumbling-roads/

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Labour party is ruling Victoria for almost 10 years. Thank you all good people of Victoria who voted for them in last 2022 election after longest lockdown in the world being held in Melbourne.

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On the photo is potholes from swedish roads, just to entertain you how they are different to Victorian ones.