Over the next nine months, the Victorian Government plans to spend $976 million on a road maintenance blitz to fix potholes and upgrade road surfaces across the state.
The blitz was announced back in May as part of the Victorian Budget 2025/26 and officially launched yesterday, by Minister for Roads and Road Safety Melissa Horne, in Kyneton, where crews will begin work.
She said 70 per cent of the funding will go towards regional roads.
“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,” Horne explained.
“We’re getting on and delivering the biggest single-year investment in road maintenance in Victoria’s history.”
Member for Macedon Mary-Anne Thomas added, “Whether it’s fixing potholes, resurfacing roads or improving safety, this blitz will deliver better and smoother journeys for drivers right across regional Victoria – keeping our communities connected.”
The ‘Better Roads Blitz’ will involve thousands of projects to rebuild, repair and resurface roads, along with maintaining bridges, installing traffic lights and signage.
The blitz will target the state’s busiest travel and trade routes. Key roads across regional Victoria that will be targeted through this program of works include the Western Highway, Princes Highway East, Princes Highway West, Hume Highway and Calder Highway.
While in metropolitan areas, the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, Leakes Road, Normanby Road, the Warburton Highway and Boronia Road will also receive upgrades.
Roads were prioritised based on expert assessments and community feedback, in an effort to try and focus the funding to where it’s most needed.
As well as repairing some of the busiest roads, crews will also mow, slash and spray tens of thousands of kilometres of roadsides, inspect and repair thousands of bridges and other structures.
They’ll also fix hundreds of sets of traffic lights and electronic signs, clean up graffiti and deliver other maintenance works as needed.
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