Tara Murray
Brimbank council is calling for parts of Taylors Road to be upgraded immediately in a bid to eliminate a dangerous bottleneck.
Mayor Ranka Rasic raised a notice of motion asking council to write to the state government seeking urgent duplication of Taylors Road between Kings Road in Taylors Lakes and Watervale Boulevard in Taylors Hill.
The road is currently a council controlled road, but the council is calling for the state government to make that section of the road an arterial road, which would result in the road being controlled by the Department of Transport.
Part of Taylors Road is already managed by the department.
“Cars are often banked up and prevented from traveling freely through in and out of Brimbank,” Cr Rasic said.
“I’m asking the state government to declare this section of road as a state road and be upgraded, install traffic lights where necessary and construction a proper signalised intersection where Tennyson Drive meets Taylors Road.
“Taylors Road is of local and regional significance and why it needs to be funded properly and upgraded as soon as possible, if not now.”
Cr Bruce Lancashire said the delays and disruptions caused of congestion of this road had economic implications.
“We can’t afford to undertake the work,” he said.
“It needs to be a declared road as an arterial road,” he said. “That’s the first step and the second step is to fund this particular road.”
Cr Maria Kerr said the road is a major thoroughfare in connecting Brimbank and Melton, which had been neglected over a number of years.
“It’s a catastrophe waiting to happen.”
