Roads

  • Plans to enhance road safety

    Colac Otway Shire Council is hoping to enhance the safety of roads in the shire through $2 million in State Government funding.

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  • Petition calls for road fix

    Simpson locals and community leaders are calling for sweeping changes to a dangerous stretch of the Lavers Hill-Cobden Road following six recent crashes. State Member for Polwarth Richard Riordan, Corangamite Mayor Kate Makin, Simpson Community House’s Deb Smith and Timboon business man David Costin gathered where 40-kilometre-per-hour signs have been introduced in response to the […]

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  • Government hits back at road and rail cut claims

    The Federal Government has hit back against claims that funding has been cut from Colac district road and rail projects.

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  • Forest Street upgrade

    A portion of Colac’s Forest Street should be reconstructed by the end of June, after Colac Otway Shire Council awarded the $425,000 contract.

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  • Call to release state road safety information

    Wannon MP Dan Tehan is calling on the Federal Government to release road safety data that would help save lives and improve road funding in western Victoria.

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  • Road reshuffle for development

    An Elliminyt dead-end court will become a through road to open up new land for housing development.

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  • 372-tonne transformer to roll through Colac

    A “superload” longer than a 747 plane, and weighing as much as two blue whales will pass through Colac this weekend, slowing traffic.

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  • MPs push for answers on crumbling highways

    South-west Victorian MPs have spoken in State Parliament demanding government action to fix the region’s crumbling roads, including the “perilously unsafe” Princes Highway.

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