NOTORIOUSLY rough south-west roads will be repaired as part of a $5 million pre-election pledge from Premier Denis Napthine.
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Five main sections of state-controlled roads will be targeted including a particularly potholed stretch of Caramut Road, north of Mailors Flat.
The biggest winner from the Coalition pledge would be motorists using the Macarthur-Myamyn Road, which will have $2.6 million spent on its damaged western section.
The rural link, which spans both the Glenelg and Moyne shires, has received publicity in recent months after more than 160 residents signed a petition calling for an upgrade.
Dr Napthine, who is also South West Coast MP, said his government would continue its road repair agenda if relected on November 29.
He said all roads in the $5 million package would be completed by the end of the 2015 calendar year.
“Macarthur-Myamyn Road is high on the level of community concern and we are committed to bringing it up to an acceptable standard,” Dr Napthine told The Standard yesterday.
“Clearly, use of that road has grown in line with the growth of the timber industry and the number of heavy vehicles involved.”
Meanwhile, Woolsthorpe-Heywood Road has attracted $1.4 million for work along unspecified sections of its 75-kilometre length.
“We’ve also sought to bring the Heywood-Woolsthorpe Road to dual lane over time, to highway standard, reflecting the level of traffic along there,” the Premier said.
“This is on top of the package we announced a few months ago for the Heywood-Woolsthorpe Road, which is under way.”
Also on the list of funded projects is two sections of the Princes Highway, one north of Portland and the other west of Heywood. More than $600,000 will be spent to upgrade sections of the highway at Greenwald and Bolwarra. Dr Napthine said the two sections of highway were chosen due to heightened traffic volumes, particularly timber industry trucks.