Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Sandringham electorate

Mr ROWSWELL (Sandringham) (14:42): (6452) My constituency question is to the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, and I ask: when will the government introduce road safety measures to keep families, kids and educators safe along Bluff Road outside the Bambini Early Learning Centre? Bambini, a popular local childcare centre on Bluff Road in Sandringham, is prone to busy drop-off and pick-up periods, given there are over 150 children at that centre. Unfortunately one of the centre’s educators was involved in a terrible accident just outside while on their way to work. Bambini has set up a petition calling on the government to establish a keep-clear zone and a 40-kilometre zone to ensure that families and staff members can safely enter and exit the centre. So far nearly 400 locals on behalf of their families have signed that petition, so I call on the government to immediately adopt measures to protect local families and educators from any further road accidents outside the Bambini Early Learning Centre before another unfortunate accident occurs.