Road to nowhere sign1/9/2024 This includes the signalisation of the intersection at Bald Hill Road, upgrading the Princes Freeway overpass, upgrading McGregor Road interchange with the Pakenham Bypass, new freeway ramps and the widening of McGregor Road between the northern freeway roundabout and Webster Way. The project is expected to duplicate Racecourse Road between the Princes Freeway and Henry Street in Pakenham, and upgrade McGregor Road and Racecourse Roads interchanges. The Pakenham Roads Upgrades is expected to start in late 2022 and finish in 2025. In the email, Mr Wood encouraged locals to sign a petition to the State Government to “get on with” the project.Īccording to the Department of Infrustructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, the Australian Government has contributed $391.5 million to the project.įrom mid-2019 to mid-2021 the Australian Government spent $6.5 million to undertake “planning and development work to explore options to upgrade Racecourse Road between the Princes Freeway and Henry Street in Pakenham”. “State Labor must stop wasting time and finally get on with the upgrades for Racecourse and McGregor Road,” he said. Mr Wood criticised the State Government for not starting construction yet and for estimating the work to be finished by late 2025. The former Morrison Government delayed providing the funding required for the Pakenham Roads Upgrade to proceed for several years.” “We had to do that work for them and then they came to the table with actual funding unfortunately by also redirecting money from the Thompson Road project to the Pakenham roads upgrade. “Our community know the Andrews Labor Government deliver on infrastructure, unlike the former Federal Coalition Government’s broken promises and failure to deliver projects because they totally under costed and funded them,” she said. “Since 2019, the Andrews Government has delayed and dragged their feet and have now increased the price tag to almost $400 million.”īut Ms Crugnale said Mr Wood’s claims were not correct and blamed the Federal Government for the delay. “This vital upgrade will duplicate Racecourse Road, replace the Bald Hill Road roundabout with a signalised intersection, and add new freeway ramps to a widened McGregor Road. “This project was fully funded by the previous Liberal Government with no contribution from the Victorian Government,” he said.
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