October 17th, 2024Local roads earmarked to benefit from ‘major maintenance blitz’
The state government is rolling out a major road maintenance blitz to rebuild, repair, and resurface roads right across Victoria – fuelled by the largest single-year investment in road maintenance in the state’s history.
Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne this week launched the $964 million road maintenance blitz at the South Geelong depot of Fulton Hogan, one of the contractors that will deliver these works between now and mid-2025.
An army of road workers will begin delivering the equivalent of $2.6 million worth of works for every day of the year – with around 70 per cent of funding going to regional Victoria.
Over the next nine months, crews will complete thousands of projects on our network, ranging from road rehabilitation and resurfacing, to patching potholes and maintaining bridges, traffic lights, signage and road infrastructure.
To deliver major works such as road rebuilding and rehabilitation, there must be extended periods of warmer and drier conditions, which is why most work is done between now and May each year – ensuring repairs last.
In Macedon the following roads are included:
• Gisborne-Kilmore Road
• Tylden -Woodend Road
• Kilmore- Lancefield Road
• Heathcote-Kyneton Road
With roads nearby including:
• Vineyard Road Sunbury
• Midland Hwy between Blampied and Newlyn
• Bendigo Redesdale Road
Repeated flooding and above-average rainfall caused unprecedented damage to many of the state’s roads which meant the maintenance program needed to focus on rebuilding damaged roads last year as simply resurfacing these roads would not have prevented further degradation.
Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne: “We’re investing nearly a billion dollars to rebuild and repair the roads that Victorians depend on every single day — from the highways connecting our major centres to the local roads that keep our communities moving.”
“Crews will be out delivering $2.6 million of works every day for a year – with around 70 per cent of all funding going towards our regional roads.”
