04 May 2010
Tuesday’s State Budget has failed to deliver any relief for Peninsula residents already struggling with congested roads, inadequate public transport and increasingly violent streets.
A review of the Budget papers spells out clearly the Government’s contempt for our community. Not one major project has been funded nor has a single under-resourced service been extended.
The only local project listed in the State Budget is a minor upgrade of the Mount Martha Sewerage Treatment Plant ($675,000 in 2010-11) and the construction of a one million dollar “Sewerage Treatment Plant Education Centre” at the same location.
The State Budget has delivered:
- No extra Police for Mornington, Mount Eliza and Mount Martha
- No funding to relieve peak hour congestion in Bungower Road and Mornington Tyabb Road
- No public transport improvements despite the local population boom
- No funding to re-build Mornington Primary School, Osborne Primary School or to fund the promised re-development of Mornington Special Development School
- No additional funding for Frankston Hospital despite almost half the Emergency Department Patients who require hospitalisation being left waiting on a trolley for more than eight hours (Government’s target is 80%)
The Budget demonstrates clearly in John Brumby’s eyes the Peninsula belongs firmly at the bottom of the heap.
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